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TlIE MOOR OF MONBRAIIER :— ^^^„ The Little Dog WalLice 3 The " Kirkeeii-Thi-íiw " 8 Frost 15 KILLVULLEN-BY-THE-SEA 21 Our Elftn Mythology 25 Rough Angling 31 ROUND THE CLIFFS WITH A GUN 35 A NlGHT AFTER WlDGEON 40 THE BOG IN FEBRUARY 45 Two IRISH REMINISCENCES :— The Ballyvourney Regatta 50 The Great Killooly Coursing Club 55 PART II. H0LID.4 Y PAPERS. THE SPRING AT HAMPTON 63 KEW IN MARCH 68 THE SCAMANDER 73 BY THE RIVER 79 FLORA IN TOWN 84 TROUT MURDER 89 HOOKHAM-ON-THAMES 93 SWALLOW-FLIGHT IOI A VOYAGE ON TIIE BLACKWATER 106 iv Contents. PART in. ESSA YS ON SPORT. PAGE SPORTING ACCIDENTS 117 THE CLAIMS OF SPORT ON ART 124 SPORTING IMPOSTORS . 133 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPORTING INSTINCT 143 SPORT FOR THE LACKLANDS 149 THE MARRIED SPORTSMAN 155 THE CHAMPIONS OF SPORT . 160 THE " LITTLE LOVES " OF SPORTSMEN 165 SPORTING EXPEDITIONS 170 THE SOCIALITIES OF SPORT I7S SPORT AND PASTIME FOR THE SPRING 183 KILLING NO SPORT ." 187 THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF DEMOCRATIC PASTIMES 192 GooD TEMPER AMONGST SPORTSMEN 197 THE PROGRESS OF SPORT 202 FEBRUARY AND "CLOSE TIME" 208 THE USE AND POPULARITY OF ATHLETIC PURSUITS 213 THE SPORTSMAN'S DIARY 224 PART IV. NOTES ON SHOOTING. HINTS FOR THE FEAST OF ST. PARTRIDGE 231 SNIPE SHOOTING 336 PLOVER SHOOTING 242 ON THE APPROACH TO GAME . 247 STALKING THE WHIMBREL 252 CONCERNING BEATERS 257 PART I SPORTING RAMBLES. THE MOOR OF MONBRAHER. THE LITTLE DOG WALLACE. UCH bewildered is the little dog Wallace at the first head of game he flushes on the MooMr of Monbraher. Wallace is a rather obese clum- ber, whose sporting experiences have been hitherto confined to pheasant coverts and tlie turnips of the English counties, and he has never before wagged his tail over an Irisli moorland. He comes to a dead halt opposite a great bunch of withered flags rising from a black ooze of peat and water. Wallace does not know what to make of it. There is something there, no doubt : and with a heavy sigli as though waking from a gloomy dream, a man suddenly rises in the reeds and confronts the dog and his master. This figure will stand for the very genius of ague and of Monbraher. Though bent with cramp, he stands six feet high in the ragged bandages which are swathed upon his legs to serve as moccasins. His face is livid, a thin hoar-frost of beard fringes his jaws and lips, and his hollow eyes glitter. In his lean hand he clutches a reaping-hook, and on his back is the reward of his toil—the withies and other stuff" which he gathers for fuel or for manufacture into coarse matting. Has not a poet told us of beauty born of murmuring sound passing into the face of a woman ? On the countenance of the ague-stricken matmaker the deso- lation of this landscape has impressed its hungry gloom —its separation from the world of culture or intelligent interest— its abandonment to birds that do not sing, but Sporting Rambles. cry with painful, querulous notes when the chiU wind scatters their squadrons, or when the fowler surprises them. Wallace so far recovers himself as to bark, and then to sniff at the lean shanks of the Monbraher matmaker. " Have you seen any snipe or duck?" Yes, but 'tis late in the day to come for them. There are four or five heavy duck, he thinks, pitched two or three hundred yards, but his honour had better be quick, for Lame Carey the tailor is " stalin " down on them already. And, indeed, Wallace is fated this day to meet more than one curious product of Irish moor- land existence. With stealthy jerks of a crutch, and with a long single gun in hand, approaches Lame Carey the tailor, a well-known character in this wild district. Advancing to meet Mr. Carey (who has fur- nished the end of his crutch with a flat piece of wood, to prevent it sinking so deep in the soil that he would be staked to it or unable to pull it out again), a parley, and an offensive alliance against the birds, are entered into with him.
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