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Updated: May 24, 2025
Nets are set across open paths between the trees, generally Ilex, through which the Woodcocks take their flight when going out "roading," as it is called that is, when on their evening excursion for food; into these nets the Woodcocks fly and become easy victims. Professor Ansted includes the Woodcock in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.
"Quick, Forester, quick!" shouted Archer; "over the wall, lad, and mark them! those are quail; I'm man enough to get this fellow by myself. Steady, lads! steady-y-y!" as they were roading on at the top of their pace. "Toho! toho-o-o, Chase; fie, for shame don't you see, sir, Shot's got him dead there under his very nose in those cat-briers.
The word "roding" is spelt "roading" by Newton, who thus gives the preference to the Anglo-Saxon description of the aërial tracks followed by the bird, over the alternative derivation from the French "roder," which means to wander. The flight is at any rate wholly different from that to which the sportsman is accustomed when one of these birds is flushed in covert.
But it makes roading hard; everything is so slippery, and if you ever happened to see a French horse or a French person "walking on ice" I don't need to say more. Well, the unexpected has happened the cavalry has moved on. They expected as much as a soldier ever expects anything to have divided their time until March between our hill and the trenches in the Forêt de Laigue.
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