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"The coveys ain't so fond of killing stockmen, if they don't meddle too much with their mutton, and I'm sure whenever gentlemanly Sam and his boys have honored me with a visit, I have let 'em have their own way, and they have killed without hinderance. If that isn't treating 'em well, then I was not larnt manners." "There is some force in what you say," Mr. Brown replied. "Of course there is.
A curious feature about them is that they are never flushed in coveys and very rarely in pairs, but are almost invariably single birds, which fact, together with their large size and gorgeous plumage, leads me to think that they must represent a distinct branch of the family, to which the name "solitary" would be highly applicable.
He was acquainted with every rood of land in the, parish; knew with astonishing accuracy where coveys were to be sprung, and hares started. No hunt was without him; such was his wind and speed of foot, that to follow a chase and keep up with the horsemen was to him only a matter of sport. When daylight passed, night presented him with amusements suitable to itself.
In the upper country I found a large variety growing wild in the Fiumaras. The Bedouins named it Buamado, but ignored its virtues. This ornament is called Musbgur. A large brown bird with black legs, not unlike the domestic fowl. Owing to the Bedouin prejudice against eating birds, it is found in large coveys all over the country. It has been described by Salt and others.
I did not return by the way I came, but kept upon the plateau, going southward, then, dropping down into another valley at the bottom of which ran a tributary of the Vers, I crossed the stream and rose upon the opposite hill, making somewhat at random towards the village of Cours. On my way I started numerous coveys of red partridges from juniper and box and other low shrubs.
And the air is full of restless birds, singing deliriously for very joy in the voluptuous business of their nests and coveys.
"Aye, there are so, sir coveys of 'em, very fine feathers an' pretty as pictoors t' look at but " "Ah!" said I, as he paused, "that kind?" "Aye, sir, if ye know what I mean." "I do! Raydon Manor seems haunted in many ways." "Aye, sir, an' this is very sure if Innocence ever goes in, it never comes out!"
The criticism of fiction, taken by and large, is not so good as the criticism of our acted drama, not so good as our musical criticism, not so good as current reviewing of poetry and of published plays. Are reviewers bewildered by the coveys of novels that wing into editorial offices by every mail?
It prefers the woods being seldom or never found in open plains. They are solitary birds; generally being seen in coveys of four or five, and often singly, or in pairs. The stranger wandering through the forest is surprised to hear a peculiar sound, very similar to that produced by striking two full-blown ox-bladders together, but much louder.
Everything was there, and of the best quality, just as if I had spent a whole fortnight knocking about Plymouth and ordering things. Clearly, if this cruise came to grief, it would not be for want of equipment. Just as I was beginning on the lockers and the drawers, the watch reported icebergs on both bows and, what was more to the point, coveys of Polar bears on the icebergs.
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