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He had a highly important collection of modern paintings, and an even more valuable one of Tanagra figurines, old Greek coins, and medieval church plate. He had, too, the reputation of being the most gun-shy and bullet-proof of social lions. At thirty he was a handsome, well-groomed, rather bored personage, with sleekly-brushed blond hair and a short mustache.
Hundreds of dogs proved stupid or unreliable or gun-shy or too easily confused in moments of stress. These were weeded out, continually, and shipped back to the masters who had proffered them. Others developed with amazing speed and cleverness, grasping their profession as could few human soldiers.
I tell you he's gun-shy." "That's so," said another boy. "I've seen him stop his ears with his fingers when Bert shot his gun off more than once, too." "Ought to be named 'Gussie," said Bert. "A great big fellow like Billy, scared of a gun! He must be sixteen, and large for his age at that. He's worse than that dog I had last year don't you remember, boys?
Ferrall nodded: "I came in to say something a message from Grace confound it! what was it? Oh could you before dinner now just sit down and with that infernal facility of yours make a sketch of a man chasing a gun-shy dog?" "Why yes if Mrs. Ferrall wishes "
"Shoot-a-Buck Cañon how'll that do for a name?" inquired Thursday with a grin. Prince let out a whoop. "You got him right. He'll never smile again. Shoot-a-Buck Cañon goes." The Indians evidently held a hurried consultation and changed their minds about holding the gorge against such deadly shooting as this. "They're gun-shy," announced Thursday.
At the first sight of Willie's revolver he had dived for a refuge and was now flattened against the wall, a pillow pressed over his head to deaden the expected report. "Hey!" called the foreman, but Glass did not hear him. "Seems to be gun-shy," observed Willie, gently.
But how shall one become acquainted with a notoriously unfriendly and gun-shy celebrity, a personage of such note that every utterance means newspaper space; and at the same time manage utterly to ignore and cast into outer darkness the people with whom the great one is staying? The town felt itself put upon its mettle. The first move was made by Miss Martha Hopkins.
"After a time one of them began to swear at me, and say that he believed I was gun-shy. He staggered to the wagon and got out his fowling piece, and said he was going to try me. "He loaded it, went to a little distance, and was going to fire, when the young man who owned Bob said he wasn't going to have his dog's legs shot off, and coming up he unfastened him and took him away.
Inherited qualities count for a great deal in the adaptability of all sporting dogs, and the reason why one meets with so many Retrievers that are incapable or disobedient or gun-shy is simply that their preliminary education has been neglected the education which should begin when the dog is very young.
Anyway, what's the difference whether he finds out this mornin' or this evenin'?" "Then you ain't expectin' a fight if Anson holds up the stage?" "Wal, he'd have to shoot first, which ain't likely. John an' Hal, since thet shootin'-scrape a year ago, have been sort of gun-shy. Joe might get riled. But I reckon the best we can be shore of is a delay. An' it'd be sense not to count on thet."
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