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The wiles of a cardinal the arts of a concubine the snipe-shooting of an ambassador the speculations of a soldier of fortune the ill temper of a monk the mutual venom of Italian houses above all, the perpetual rivalry of the two great historical families who owned the greater part of Europe between them as their private property such were the wheels on which rolled the destiny of Christendom.
The episode had been a green and dangerous spot, like one of those bright mossy bits of bog when you were snipe-shooting, to set foot on which was to let you down up to the neck, at least. Well, there was none of that danger now, for her husband was dead-poor chap!
Now that American field sports are wilder in one sense, I grant readily; with the exception of snipe-shooting here, and grouse-shooting in Scotland, the former being tamer, in all senses, than any English the latter wilder in all senses than any American field-sport.
"Never mind, sir," said William, "it's a knack, snipe-shooting is, and no one can catch it without practice. I've seen good partridge, aye, and rabbit shots, miss 'em time after time, and I've knowed good snipe- shots poor at anything else too." At last, by trying to follow the keeper's directions, Crawley did hit a snipe as it was flushed, but it was his only one.
William, determined to make this last day a day of thorough enjoyment, was out snipe-shooting; Edmund, she had too much reason to suppose, was at the Parsonage; and left alone to bear the worrying of Mrs.
These do not frequent the dry meadows and fields, but belong to the long boots, mud and marsh category. I have never seen but one jack snipe, though the painted variety is fairly common. In the neighbourhood of a creek seven miles below Hankow is to be had the best spring snipe-shooting that I know of.
Jim has given up that sport himself and confines himself to a little harmless duck- or snipe-shooting, or a little quiet trifling with the rats during the Christmas holidays, after which he will return to the University and try and not be plucked, once more. He has already eschewed green coats, red neckcloths, and other worldly ornaments, and is preparing himself for a change in his condition.
Such was the explanation of the lull in the campaign against Peaceful Moments. The new war had taken the mind of Spider Reilly and his warriors off the paper and its affairs for the moment, much as the unexpected appearance of a mad bull would make a man forget that he had come out snipe-shooting. At present there had been no pitched battle.
Snipe-shooting at home one always associates with long boots, cold water, mud and marshes. Spring snipe-shooting in China is of a totally different kind. Imagine a bright, warm day, with the sun almost too powerful, dry meadows with fresh, green grass, and clover about six inches high, fields of wheat and barley in ear and beans in flower, all Nature at her best.
How can he possibly get a correct aim with "ball" out of a smoothbore, without squinting along the barrel and taking the muzzle-sight accurately? The fact is, that many persons fire so hastily at game that they take no sight at all, as though they were snipe-shooting with many hundred grains of shot in the charge.
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