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Updated: June 1, 2025
'Only let's go, he said, 'to my underwoods at Zusha; I can seize the opportunity to have a look at Tchapligino; you know my oakwood; they're felling timber there. 'By all means. He ordered his horse to be saddled, put on a green coat with bronze buttons, stamped with a boar's head, a game-bag embroidered in crewels, and a silver flask, slung a new-fangled French gun over his shoulder, turned himself about with some satisfaction before the looking-glass, and called his dog, Hope, a gift from his cousin, an old maid with an excellent heart, but no hair on her head.
Could it be the reason people used to paint so much still life? baskets of fruit, a hunter's game-bag, a divided melon, etc.
"'Will you come with us, my dear M. Louet? said Mademoiselle Zephyrine. "'Thank you, replied I; 'I am not accustomed to ride. I would rather have a day's shooting. "'I will keep M. Louet company, said the lieutenant. "On retiring to my apartment that night, I found my fowling-piece in one corner, my game-bag in another, and my hundred crowns on the chimney-piece.
Every one who comes back from the chase with his game-bag well filled meets with a warm welcome in good society. In justice to this hospitable part of the world, it must be said that you have to do with the most easy and good-natured of great cities.
A former Macruadh might have answered, "No; these parts belong to me;" Alister curtly replied, "I do." "Here then, my good fellow! take my game-bag, and carry it as far as the New House if you know where I mean. I will give you a shilling." One moment the chief spent in repressing a foolish indignation; the next he spent in reflection.
I met but one human being that forenoon, a dark military-looking wayfarer, who carried a game-bag on a baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record. For when I asked him if he were Protestant or Catholic 'Oh, said he, 'I make no shame of my religion. I am a Catholic. He made no shame of it! The phrase is a piece of natural statistics; for it is the language of one in a minority.
They were worth a charge of powder and lead, and I reflected that if I could kill but one of them, it would ensure us against hunger for a couple of weeks to come. So I hung my game-bag to the branch of a tree, and set about approaching them. I saw that the wind was in my favour, and there was no danger of their scenting me.
You keep a game-bag for thoughts, don't you?" Mr. Rossitur wished Mr. Carleton didn't. But he sat down, however, and listened with an unedified face; while his friend, more to please himself, it must be confessed, than for any other reason, and perhaps with half a notion to try Fleda, repeated the beautiful words. He presently saw they were not lost upon one of his hearers; she listened intently.
You seem to have done well," answered Tommy, looking enviously from the gun to the game-bag, out of which hung a rabbit's head and a squirrel's tail. "Pretty fair; but I want a shot at the bear.
On each bed was a mattress and a matting, covered with a ragged green spread. A piece of mirror in a varnished frame, an old game-bag on a nail, and a worn silk cravat which showed the crease of its folds, indicated that the room belonged to some one who probably slept there every night.
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