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With her thin nostrils distended to this scent, Lady Casterley bore a distinct resemblance to a small, fine game-bird. "You smell nice down here," she said. "Now, Mr. Courtier, before I forget who is this Mrs. Lees Noel that I hear so much of?" At that question, Barbara could not help sliding her eyes round. How would he stand up to Granny? It was the moment to see what he was made of.
The crested screamers, dark gray and as large as turkeys, perched on the very topmost branches of the tallest trees. Hyacinth macaws screamed harshly as they flew across the river. Among the trees was the guan, another peculiar bird as big as a big grouse, and with certain habits of the wood-grouse, but not akin to any northern game-bird.
And in oven-like cities of India there were men who looked out at the white sun-glare, the heat-baked dust, the welter of crowded streets, who listened to the unceasing chorus of harsh-throated crows, the strident creaking of cart- wheels, the buzz and drone of insect swarms and the rattle call of the tree lizards; men whose thoughts went hungrily to the cool grey skies and wet turf and moist ploughlands of an English hunting country, men whose memories listened yearningly to the music of a deep-throated hound and the call of a game-bird in the stubble.
"And I always until I find you or you find me." ... Presently she laughed gaily under her breath: "A solemn bargain, isn't it?" "More solemn than marriage." "Yes," said the girl faintly. Something went crashing off into the woods as they reached the hogback which linked them with the group of pines whither the big game-bird had pitched into cover.
As it is, if I had my way, I'd restock with Western ruffed-grouse; cut out that pheasantry altogether, and try to breed our own native game-bird " "What! You can't breed ruffed-grouse in captivity!" "I've done it, sir," said young Hastings modestly. That night, over the plans, Portlaw voiced his distrust of Hastings and mourned aloud for Malcourt.
"Not at all, madam; that is a game-bird. The national amusements of Spain are bull-fighting and cock-fighting," returned Mr. Webb. "I was in Madrid one Sunday, and the programme for the day was a cock-fight at one, a bull-fight at three, and the Italian opera at six; and I went to all of them." "On Sunday?" queried the lady.
The thickets of ilex that shade off these wooded reaches into the treeless prairie are the resort of many partridges. You are led back into the open ground by another game-bird, the pinnated grouse, the widest ranger of its genus, but at the North disappearing only less rapidly than the buffalo.
Also, that the dingo was not a dingo at all, but just a wild dog; and that the only difference between a dingo and a dodo was that neither of them barked; otherwise they were just the same. He said that the only game-bird in Australia was the wombat, and the only song-bird the larrikin, and that both were protected by government. The most beautiful of the native birds was the bird of Paradise.
"Pater Patriae," "Nonarum Dux," the control of the bread-tax, all should be added to him in time, if only the Borgia could be fed elsewhere. At the thought of that hearty eater stalled in the Vatican, he felt that he might indeed thank God for his lovely Molly. With her for decoy even that game-bird might be lured.
Then he fell to wondering if he consulted his note-book J. Winfield Harrah had specialized at all upon his method of serving up this game-bird which knows no closed season?
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