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Updated: May 25, 2025
Throughout the length and breadth of America, the ruling passion is to kill as long as anything killable remains. The man who will openly advocate the stopping of quail-shooting because the quails are of such great value to the farmers, or because they are so beautiful and companionable to man, receives no sympathy from ninety per cent of the bird-killing sportsmen.
"And pray," said I, "is this your method of proceeding?" "You shall see, you shall see; come get to horse, or it will be late before we get our breakfast, and I assure you I don't wish to lose either that, or my day's quail-shooting. This hunt is merely for a change, and to get something of an appetite for breakfast.
The shooting had been good that morning, as quail-shooting goes, and the man who acted as keeper, loader, gardener, and general factotum, and who went out with any one who wanted to shoot, had gone on to the cottage with the bag, the two guns, and the animal which he called his dog.
"Yes, poor boy," old Don Miguel agreed; "he will miss more than the quail-shooting when he returns if he should return. They sent him to Siberia to fight the Bolsheviki." "What sort of country is this where Don Mike slays our enemy?" Pablo queried. "It is always winter there, Pablo. It is inhabited by a wild race of men with much whiskers." "Ah, our poor Don Mike! And he a child of the sun!"
On his seventieth birthday, at a rodeo, he won first prize for roping and hog-tying a steer." "I'd like to meet that father of yours, Farrel." "You'd like him. Any time you want to spend a furlough on the Palomar, we'll make you mighty welcome. Better come in the fall for the quail-shooting." He glanced at his wrist-watch and sighed. "Well, I suppose I'd do well to be toddling along.
Letters and despatches accumulate in the Post-office; no vessel arrives bringing intelligence from England, or offering to take away a mail: the Colonial Secretary, having exhausted every official resource in the way of mental occupation, looks out at the window, and meditates upon quail-shooting.
He is said always to do so, certainly he often does. One attacked me once when out quail-shooting. He put up his great neck and head suddenly at a distance of only five or six feet, and was just preparing to strike, when I literally blew his head off with two charges of shot. You would suppose he was vicious enough to be included with the Russell's viper in the category of the exceptions, but no.
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