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The Bothie was the name facetiously given by Alexander, Baron Rothie, son of the Marquis of Boarshead, to a house he had built in the neighbourhood, chiefly for the accommodation of his bachelor friends from London during the shooting-season. 'Haud yer tongue, Caumill, said the shoemaker. 'She's nae sic cattle, yon. Maybe he'll mak' something o't.
She also, during the shooting-season, was often asked to find a bedroom for visitors to The Towers. She might have done better had she been on thoroughly good terms with the parson. She attended church on Sunday morning with tolerable regularity. She never went inside a dissenting chapel, and was not heretical on any definite theological point, but the rector and she were not friends.
"I thought I knew your face," he said. "But your name, I regret to say " "Langford, William Langford. I have known Jonathan Jelf since we were boys together at Merchant Taylor's, and I generally spend a few weeks at Dumbleton in the shooting-season. I suppose we are bound for the same destination?" "Not if you are on your way to the Manor," he replied.
"There is plenty of game in this wood," said he; "pheasant cocks and pheasant hens, to say nothing of hares and coneys; and in the midst of it there is a space sown with a particular kind of corn for the support of the pheasant hens and pheasant cocks, which in the shooting-season afford pleasant sport for Biddulph and his friends."
The kind and sympathetic Minister of Agriculture has signed the official document opening the shooting-season for hares and partridges in La belle France, to-morrow, Sunday, the thirtieth of September. Thrice happy hunters! they who had begun to grumble in their cafés over the rumour that the opening of the shooting-season might be postponed until the second or even third Sunday in October.
He I mean the D. goes down next month to spend the shooting-season in Scotland he says, he makes a point of always dining one day at the Manse be on your guard, and do not betray yourself, should he mention me Yourself, alas! you have nothing to betray nothing to fear; you, the pure, the virtuous, the heroine of unstained faith, unblemished purity, what can you have to fear from the world or its proudest minions?
He I mean the D. goes down next month to spend the shooting-season in Scotland he says, he makes a point of always dining one day at the Manse be on your guard, and do not betray yourself, should he mention me Yourself, alas! you have nothing to betray nothing to fear; you, the pure, the virtuous, the heroine of unstained faith, unblemished purity, what can you have to fear from the world or its proudest minions?
Poppit was apt to allude more frequently than would have been natural if she had always been accustomed to one, and they went to Switzerland for a month every winter and to Scotland "for the shooting-season," as Mrs. Poppit terribly remarked, every summer.
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