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... wild corner of County Mayo , where I had purchased a tract of five thousand acres , and where I rented , for thirty pounds a year , on a long lease , the shooting over upwards of thirteen thousand acres more , and which I enjoyed until ...
... wild corner of County Mayo , where I had purchased a tract of five thousand acres , and where I rented , for thirty pounds a year , on a long lease , the shooting over upwards of thirteen thousand acres more , and which I enjoyed until ...
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... wild parts . It's not in a hurry we'll let you go , unless you weary of an old man and bad cookery . " " " Old , my dear sir ! you don't look much older than myself ; and as for cookery , it's not so long since I left school , where the ...
... wild parts . It's not in a hurry we'll let you go , unless you weary of an old man and bad cookery . " " " Old , my dear sir ! you don't look much older than myself ; and as for cookery , it's not so long since I left school , where the ...
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... wild - looking man , lightly clad in what was once a shooting - jacket , evidently of English make , but sadly dilapidated , a pair of corduroy breeches loose at the knee , worsted stockings , and strong clouted shoes . He carried an ...
... wild - looking man , lightly clad in what was once a shooting - jacket , evidently of English make , but sadly dilapidated , a pair of corduroy breeches loose at the knee , worsted stockings , and strong clouted shoes . He carried an ...
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... wild than their Scotch cousins , and in those days and in that wild district they were very little shot at . I rose rapidly in Larry's estimation , and speedily attained , by a series of successful shots , a high place in it . By the ...
... wild than their Scotch cousins , and in those days and in that wild district they were very little shot at . I rose rapidly in Larry's estimation , and speedily attained , by a series of successful shots , a high place in it . By the ...
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... wild ducks , hares , brown and grey , are abundant , and quail are occasionally met with . Personally I have never enjoyed shooting in even the best preserved manors so much as on the wild Irish bogs . While the keepers were putting up ...
... wild ducks , hares , brown and grey , are abundant , and quail are occasionally met with . Personally I have never enjoyed shooting in even the best preserved manors so much as on the wild Irish bogs . While the keepers were putting up ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!