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"The Ghost Deer" "The Old Orchard" "A Quiet Hunt, Late in the Day" Three stories about hunting and, relatedly, man's search for what's lasting and true. more...
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The most daring and adventurous of all hunters is Mr. Roualeyn Gordon Cumming. Being an officer in the British service at the Cape of Good Hope, his love of hunting adventures led him to resign his commission in the army, and devote himself for five years to exploring the interior of Africa, and hunting wild beasts. We shall quote his own account of some of his adventures.
The first incident of his career, to ... more...
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CHAPTER I
SELECTION OF STOCK AND THEIR HOME
The first point to be decided by the would-be owner of wild-fowl is the locality where he intends to turn down his stock.
Wild-fowl can undoubtedly be reared far from any large piece of water, but I am strongly of opinion that birds do better on a good-sized stretch of water with a stream running into it and out of it. Given these advantages, the running water ... more...
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Jefferies, Richard
Jefferies, Richard
Naturalist and novelist, son of a farmer, was born at Swindon, Wilts. He began his literary career on the staff of a local newspaper, and first attracted attention by a letter in the Times on the Wiltshire labourer. Thereafter he wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette, in which appeared his Gamekeeper at Home, and Wild Life in a Southern County [1879], both afterwards republished. Both these works are full of minute observation and vivid description of country life. They were followed by The Amateur Poacher [1880], Wood Magic [1881], Round about a Great Estate [1881], The Open Air [1885], and others on similar subjects. Among his novels are Bevis, in which he draws on his own ...
CHAPTER I
THE FIRST GUN
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had ... more...
