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"Where did you study medicine?" Raphael inquired. "I took my bachelor's degree on Lepage's shooting-ground in Paris, and was made a doctor at Cerizier's, the king of foils." "There is one last degree left for you to take," said Valentin; "study the ordinary rules of politeness, and you will be a perfect gentlemen."
The acting chief brought a present of one cow, one goat, and pombe, with a mob of his courtiers to pay his respects. He promised that the seven boats, which are all the station he could muster, would be ready next day, and in the meanwhile a number of men would conduct me to the shooting-ground.
"As I think," said the canon, "you will find my lord duke either in the shipyard of Barfleur, or the shooting-ground of archers at Valognes hard by." It was then to Valognes, beyond the river Douve, that we were next to ride, and we would pass on the way my uncle's castle of St Sauveur, where mine ancestors had been settled since they were lords of the Bessin.
"But you have heard about Emmy Ibsen's marriage?" asked Miss Brandt. "Yes, it was about a month ago, I think." "Yes, I was bridesmaid." "Indeed!" said Miss Hjelm, in a voice which atoned for her brevity. "The party was at the shooting-ground." "So!" said Miss Hjelm again, with as correct an intonation as if she had learned it for "I don't care."
He sent me a pot of pombe, which I sent home to the women, and walked off for the shooting-ground, two miles further on, the band playing in the front, followed by some hundred Wakungu then the pages, then the king, next myself, and finally the women the best in front, the worst bringing up the rear, with the king's spears and shield, as also pots of pombe, a luxury the king never moves without.
Accordingly, a long level piece of ground on the river's bank, with a perpendicular cliff at the end of it, was selected as the shooting-ground, and, on the appointed day, at the appointed hour, the competitors began to assemble. "Well, lad, first as usual," exclaimed Joe Blunt, as he reached the ground and found Dick Varley there before him.
He considered; in a quarter of an hour one could easily cover the short distance between the shooting-ground and the barracks. "Six sharp," he then answered decisively. Heppner replied: "Yes, sir, six o'clock;" and wrote the time in the order-book. "Yes, six o'clock," repeated Güntz. If it were no longer possible for him, then Reimers would command the battery.
My idea was, as I told you, to go on exploring the German coast just as I had the Dutch. His idea Heavens, how plainly I see it now! was to choke me off, get me to clear out altogether from that part of the coast. That was why he said there were no ducks. That was why he cracked up the Baltic as a cruising-ground and shooting-ground.
And this procured him friendship and reputation. In this way, then, six years had slipped by, when Counsellor Bagger, or rather Fritz Bagger as we will call him, in remembrance of his examination-day, and his notes by the flying mail, was invited to a wedding-party on the shooting-ground. The company was not very large, only thirty couples, but very elegant.
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