Shooting And Fishing Trips In England France Alsace Belgium Holland And Bavaria

Author : Wildfowler Wildfowler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259518570
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Shooting and Fishing Trips, Vol. 2 of 2 written by Wildfowler Wildfowler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shooting and Fishing Trips, Vol. 2 of 2: In England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and Bavaria Our 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 deplazife, 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.