robin-gunning

Updated: July 24, 2026

Now it so happens that you cannot get, in New York at all, anything like a decent game-bag a little fancy-worked French or German jigmaree machine you can get anywhere, I grant, that will do well enough for a fellow to carry on his shoulders, who goes out robin-gunning, but nothing for your man to carry, wherein to keep your birds cool, fresh, and unmutilated.

Henry William Herbert - Warwick Woodlands: Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago