Shooting and Fishing Trips, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from Shooting and Fishing Trips, Vol. 2 of 2: In England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and BavariaOur sport, on my first field shooting expedition, in Belgium, was, in the fullest meaning of the expression, a mixture. Mixture of dogs, of men, of guns, and of game. We had a pointer bitch blind of one eye, wild and uncertain in her range, but, for a wonder, staunch and true on point, and (tell it not to our formally stifi' sportsman) we had also a greyhound running loose, together with the pointer. Our guns difi'ered also materially, and even ourselves, the shooters, difi'ered considerably both in appearance and style, and, I may safely say, also in Opinions 5 finally, our Sport itself was of a mixed character, our game comprising hares, partridges, snipe, ducks, teals, widgeons, curlews, plovers, etc., etc. I. Thought, as we started, that could we have been seen by any Sportsman thoroughly imbued with our British ideas on sport, no doubt he would have predicted a complete failure in the way of our making a bag, but in this, m luz' en déplazife, he would have been mistaken, for notwithstanding the incongruity of working together a pointer and a greyhound, we succeeded in filling our bags in a remarkably short time. I confess that I had some decided misgivings when I first saw what our canine allies were to be, but being assured that we should have some fun I went, and I candidly confess that I have had no cause to regret it - I enjoyed myself immensely.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.