dove-hunting

Updated: May 29, 2025

I looked up. The man was standing over us. "Ah, Monsieur le Capitaine!" cried he, in a sneering voice, "comment vous portez-vous? You came up dove-hunting eh? The birds, you see, are not in the cot." Had there been only a thread around my body, I could not have moved at that moment. I felt cold and rigid as marble.

Mayne Reid - The Rifle Rangers