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Updated: June 15, 2025
If it had been any ordinary question, he would have pocketed the contradiction of his authority after all, if it didn't matter to them, it didn't matter to him and let Lynmouth go wherever they allowed him. But the pigeon-shooting was a question of principle.
My pigeon-shooting usually consisted in waiting for several hours in the forest, with very unsatisfactory results, so that I soon gave it up. We were all unsuccessful on this particular day, but it ended most gaily with a dance at the house of a French planter. We slept on board, rocked softly by the ship, against which the waves plashed in cosy whispering.
'Oh, I say, Le Breton, he began in his good-humoured way, 'what's this that Lynmouth's been telling me about the pigeon-shooting? He says you won't let him go out with Gerald Talfourd. 'Yes, Ernest answered; 'he wanted to miss his morning's work, and I told him I couldn't allow him to do so. 'But I said he might if he liked, Le Breton. Young Talfourd has called for him to go pigeon-shooting.
Pigeon-shooting with decoys is a very favourite amusement among the Cotswold farmers. They manage to bag an enormous quantity in a hard winter, sometimes getting over a hundred in a day. Wood-pigeons come in thousands to the stubble fields when the beech nuts have come to an end. Large flocks of them annually migrate to England from Northern Europe.
She saw a storm gathering under Jacqueline's black eyebrows, and knew that sharp arrows were likely to shoot forth from those lips which several times had opened, though not a word had been uttered, probably through fear of saying too little or too much. At last she made some trifling comment on the view, explaining something about pigeon-shooting.
"One can hardly imagine sensible men planning a Second Chamber which should not include the Archbishop of Canterbury, or which should include the young gentlemen who flock to the House of Lords when pigeon-shooting is in question. But our precious Liberal Reformers are for retaining the pigeon-shooters and for expelling the Archbishop of Canterbury."
Yesterday she was driving in her pony-carriage. To-day she distinguished herself by her skill at pigeon-shooting. To-morrow she will display herself half nude in some tableaux vivants. On the day after to-morrow she will inaugurate a new style of hair-dressing, and take part in a comedy. It is always the Baroness Trigault who is the observed of all observers at Vincennes.
They live in a world of amusing oneself and of amusing oneself in vulgar fashions as a born clown would do if he came suddenly into a large fortune. The women are just as bad as the men, only in a different way not always even that; for most of them think only of the Four-in-hand Club and the pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham things to sicken one.
Legend has it at Monte Carlo, indeed, that when the proprietors of the Casino wished to take measures "pour attirer les Anglais" they held counsel with the wise men whether it was best to establish and endow an English church or a pigeon-shooting tournament. And the church was in a minority.
Sport was the business of his life, and he thoroughly despised all who were not sportsmen. He fished and shot and hunted during nine or ten months of the year, filling up his time as best he might with coaching polo, and pigeon-shooting. He regarded it as a great duty to keep his body in the firmest possible condition.
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