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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Can't swallow that story, no how," said the overseer. "But who's that boy with you?" "None of your business. I don't make stories for you to laugh at." "Yes, you do, my boy. But you needn't row any furder. We want ye both." "You can't have us." "We'll see about that," added the man, as he raised his fowling piece. "No use, 'tain't loaded," snarled the other man in the boat.
"And four bad bargains for the king," put in the second man, whose cross glances caused Desmond no little discomfort. At this moment Joshua Wiggs, the innkeeper, came up, carrying three fowling pieces. "There be plenty o' ducks today, mister," he said. "Then we'll try our luck," said Mr. Toley, rising. "Thank 'ee, my lad," he added to Desmond. "You'll take a sup with the men afore you go?
There is no country which yieldeth more pleasure to the inhabitants, either for those common delights of hunting, hawking, fishing, fowling, and the rest, than Guiana doth; it hath so many plains, clear rivers, and abundance of pheasants, partridges, quails, rails, cranes, herons, and all other fowl; deer of all sorts, porks, hares, lions, tigers, leopards, and divers other sorts of beasts, either for chase or food.
Bertrand, who was resting upon his fowling piece, and whose tears still trickled down his cheeks, and over his weapon, could not avoid laughing aloud, and the younger lads joined him. "Yes," cried young François, "we will peel them like red and yellow apples, only serve us up a dish of them soon." "Shake them bravely out of their uniforms, the season for nut shaking is near."
In this he frequently took us out a fishing: and one time inviting two or three persons of distinction to go with him, made provision extraordinary, providing also three fusees with powder and shot, that they might have some sport at fowling along the sea-coast.
Those who attend the missionaries should understand husbandry, fishing, fowling, &c. and be provided with the necessary implements for these purposes. Indeed a variety of methods may be thought of, and when once the work is undertaken, many things will suggest themselves to us, of which we at present can form no idea.
One little fowling piece that I examined was so light and so beautifully made that I returned to it again and again while the captain and my father were talking together. It had a long steel barrel with delicate engraving upon it, and a carved stock. I was admiring the spring of the trigger work when Captain Gordon asked me if I was a good shot. "I have never fired a gun in my life," I said.
As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.
Here I slept by night, for lack of room indoors, and also to guard the fodder an arrangement which suited me admirably, since it left me my own master for six or seven hours of the twenty-four. My bedroom furniture consisted of a truss of hay, a lantern, a tinder-box, and a rusty fowling piece. For my toilet I went to the bucket in the stable yard.
As if to disencumber himself, he threw his game bag and valuable fowling piece to the old man, saying: "There, uncle; there's a present for you," and without waiting to hear his thanks, hurried on, leaping hedges and ditches, until he came to the spot where he had left his horse tied since the morning.
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