a-mouching

Updated: July 18, 2025

So, beat North Wood which way you will, them artful old cocks will run ahead of ye, or double back into them larches. And you see Mr. Bassett is not a gentleman, like Sir Charles; he is always a-mouching about, and the biggest poacher in the parish; and so he drops on to 'em out of bounds." "Is there no way of stopping all this, sir?" "We might station a dozen beaters ahead.

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