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Updated: June 2, 2025
'There is, says the hotel man, 'there is a man to be hung to-morrow. 'Oh, my! says O'Connell, 'what was it he did to deserve that? 'Himself and another that had been out fowling, says he, 'and they came in here and they began to dispute, and the one of them killed the other, and he will be hung to-morrow. 'He will not, says O'Connell.
One day Cap had had what she called "a row with the governor," that is to say, a slight misunderstanding with Major Warfield; a very uncommon occurrence, as the reader knows, in which that temperate old gentleman had so freely bestowed upon his niece the names of "beggar, foundling, brat, vagabond and vagrant," that Capitola, in just indignation, refused to join the birding party, and taking her game bag, powder flask, shot-horn and fowling piece, and calling her favorite pointer, walked off, as she termed it, "to shoot herself."
While the wretch was making this appeal, Browne was silently engaged in emptying the priming of his flintlock fowling piece, picking open the tube, and then filling the pan with fresh powder from the horn at his side. When he had closed the pan, he struck the stock of the gun one or two blows to shake the powder well down into place, that the gun might not miss fire.
We spent rather an uneasy time though, when, late that day, some men approached our hiding place in a clump of bushes and for half an hour shot their fowling pieces off all around where we lay. They did not seem to be after us; more likely they were hunters. The same thing had happened in a lesser degree several times before.
Prince Edward had made me a present, before he left Halifax, of a beautiful little fowling-piece, which was in my own possession; and I mentioned to the mate that I was the owner of such an article, and would give it to him if he would consent to secrete me in the schooner, and carry me to New York. This bait took, and I was told to bring the fowling, piece on board, and let the mate see it.
He had been an excellent shot as a boy; and though long unused to the fowling- piece, had, in India, acquired a deadly precision with the rifle; so that a very few days of practice in the stubbles and covers of Beaufort Court made his skill the theme of the guests and the admiration of the keepers.
The competitors in their best Sunday suits, some armed with muskets and some with fowling pieces for they were not particular and with bunches of ribbons fluttering in their three-cornered hats, and sprigs of gay flowers in their breasts, stood in the foreground, in an irregular cluster, while the spectators, in pleasant disorder, formed two broad, and many-coloured parterres, broken into little groups, and separated by a wide, clear sweep of green sward, running up from the marksmen to the target.
He was out fowling this afternoon. Perhaps by this time he might be at home. Annie's errand was finished; and she might now return and rest. Macdonald's man spoke of his hope of some goods being washed up by the next tide. Annie told him nothing of the cask, nor of what she had done with the rum. She commended him to his watch, and left him. Lady Carse was still sleeping, but less heavily.
The tomb was subsequently levelled to the ground by an explosion of gun-cotton and the débris was cleared away. I had a good look over the Khalifa's war arsenal. There were plenty of cannon, old and new, as well as machine guns, rifles, pistols, and fowling pieces of all kinds. Musical instruments, war-drums, elephants' tusks used as horns, coats of chain-mail old and new, and steel helmets.
So you may, Sir; and have the fowling of them yourselfe. Un. Let me see: A leading staff Tho. A leaden staffe Un. A lead'ing staffe. Tho. ding staffe. Why, a Cane is a leading staffe in a Captaines hand. Un. But I must have tassells, Thomas, and such things. Tho. At the harnesse of the Carthorses there are tassells and Bells, too, if you will. Un. Bells? What should I doe with em? Tho.
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