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I believe there's mair hares than sheep on my farm; and for the moor-fowl or the grey-fowl, they lie as thick as doos in a dookit. Did ye ever shoot a blackcock, man? 'Really I had never even the pleasure to see one, except in the museum at Keswick. 'There now! I could guess that by your Southland tongue. It's very odd of these English folk that come here, how few of them has seen a blackcock!
In the most inhospitable deserts, his man or boy is invariably able to produce from his wallet "ham, tongue, potted blackcock, and a pint of cyder," while in more favourable circumstances Buncle takes his ease in his inn by consuming "a pound of steak, a quart of green peas, two fine cuts of bread, a tankard of strong ale, and a pint of port" and singing cheerful love-ditties a few days after the death of an adored wife.
"I hope you don't learn nursery rhymes, about phantoms and ghosts, Lina?" said Mrs. Robert Brownlow. "This is an original poem, Aunt Ellen," replied Babie, gravely. "More original than practical," said John. "You haven't accounted for the pronoun?" "Oh, never mind that. Great poets are above rules. I want Essie to promise us bridesmaids blackcock tails in our hats."
Yes; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.
There is such a picture of Landseer's, well known from engravings, in which the Prince is represented in a Highland dress returned late from shooting, seated, surrounded by the trophies of his sport in deer, blackcock, &c. &c., and by a whole colony of delighted dogs, beautiful Eos conspicuous by her sobriety and reserve, while an enraptured terrier presses forward to lick his master's hand.
All around, except where the Don opens a road to Doncaster, great hills girdle it in, some of which at their summit spread out into heath-covered moorlands, where the blackcock used lately to crow.
"My dear!" said her aunt, in serious reproof, shocked at the rapidity of the young lady's ideas. "Or, at least," added Babie, "if she won't, you'll give us blackcock lockets, Cecil. They would be lovely- you know- enamelled!" "That I will!" he cried. "And, Mother Carey, will you model me a group of the birds? That would be a jolly present!" "Better than Esther's head, eh?
"The phantom blackcock of Kilnaught Is a marvellous bird yet uncaught; Go out in all weather, You see not a feather, Yet a marvellous work it has wrought, That phantom blackcock of Kilnaught." "What is that verse you are saying, Lina?" said her mother. Lina trotted across and repeated it, while Cecil shook his head at wicked Babie.
Ravenswood, in fact, thought it would be best to let his officious butler run on, who proceeded to enumerate upon his fingers "No muckle provision might hae served four persons of honour, first course, capons in white broth roast kid bacon with reverence; second course, roasted leveret butter crabs a veal florentine; third course, blackcock it's black eneugh now wi' the sute plumdamas a tart a flam and some nonsense sweet things, adn comfits and that's a'," he said, seeing the impatience of his master "that's just a' was o't forbye the apples and pears."
While Scott was thus discoursing, we were passing up a narrow glen, with the dogs beating about, to right and left, when suddenly a blackcock burst upon the wing. "Aha!" cried Scott, "there will be a good shot for Master Walter; we must send him this way with his gun, when we go home. Walter's the family sportsman now, and keeps us in game.
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