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Humpty, you mustn't take it personally. Foxy Lady has hijacked more threads and brought them directly to the swamplands where only the most disgusting vermin can be found.
It's very wearisome, to be sure.
postscript: The above comment was posted much earlier in this thread. Upon further reading I am pleased to see the sheer volume of the contributions of our learned members was too weighty and interesting to force "the fox" to scamper away with his tail between his legs.
All in all, a most interesting and enjoyabole thread. "Enjoyabole?" Que pasa aqui? Quizas- Enjoyabull (El Torro)-=- as did Don Ernesto Hemingway in "The Sun Also Rises" Y "Death in the Afternoon"?? El Zorro!!!
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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It was something of a spectator sport in those days Reminds me of an anecdote from the book I already quoted from - on one occasion about 4000 factory workers who had a holiday turned up to see the King shoot. Some of them climbed trees to get a better view and Edward unknowingly sent his load too close to where one spectator was holding on a branch. Something that sure couldn't have happened now... "You may kill, or you may miss- but at all times, think of this- all the pheasants ever bred, won't repay for one man dead"-- "Stops and beaters oft unseen, lurk behind some leafy screen- calm and steady always be, and never shoot where you can't see" Apparently the royals had never read those timeless words of wisdom--
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"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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enjoyabole los flores para muerte
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It was something of a spectator sport in those days Reminds me of an anecdote from the book I already quoted from - on one occasion about 4000 factory workers who had a holiday turned up to see the King shoot. Some of them climbed trees to get a better view and Edward unknowingly sent his load too close to where one spectator was holding on a branch. Something that sure couldn't have happened now... "You may kill, or you may miss- but at all times, think of this- all the pheasants ever bred, won't repay for one man dead"-- "Stops and beaters oft unseen, lurk behind some leafy screen- calm and steady always be, and never shoot where you can't see" Apparently the royals had never read those timeless words of wisdom-- Actually, Edward VII personally had this poem engraved in big letters on a plate and had it mounted in Sandringham's gun room. Some even believe that it was he who wrote it.
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"A FATHER'S ADVICE" by Mark Beauboy, M.P. of Coombe House, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, in 1902, for his son Henry Mark, with the gift of his first gun on reaching the age of 13.
If a sportsman true you'd be
Listen carefully to me.
Never, never let your gun
Pointed at any one;
That it may unloaded be
Matters not the least to me.
When a hedge or fence you cross
Though of time it cause a loss,
From your gun the cartridge take
For the greater safety sake.
If 'twixt you and neighboring gun
Bird may fly or beast my run,
Let this maxim e'er be thine;
"Follow not across the line."
Stops and beaters, oft unseen,
Calm and steady always be;
"Never shoot where you can't see."
Keep your place and silent be;
Game can hear, and game can see;
Don't be greedy, better spared
Is a pheasant, than one shared.
You may kill, or you may miss,
But at all times think of this
"All the pheasants ever bred
Won't repay for one man dead."
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Pardon my going slightly off-topic, but some of the comments in this thread remind me of an old joke.
A civilian psychologist is giving a soldier the Rorschach test
- What does this picture make you think of?
- Food.
- And this?
- Food.
- And that one?
- Food.
- Hmm... you don't think you might be overly focused on food?
- Might be.
- Can you think of a possible reason for that?
- Just out of training camp. Haven't had a decent meal in the last three months.
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enjoyabole los flores para muerte Puede ser, y taqmbien, no orrenas en el aqua alreadedor, porque usted habe de beber los en otra dia. El Zorro
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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"A FATHER'S ADVICE" by Mark Beauboy, M.P. of Coombe House, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, in 1902, for his son Henry Mark, with the gift of his first gun on reaching the age of 13.
If a sportsman true you'd be
Listen carefully to me.
Never, never let your gun
Pointed at any one;
That it may unloaded be
Matters not the least to me.
When a hedge or fence you cross
Though of time it cause a loss,
From your gun the cartridge take
For the greater safety sake.
If 'twixt you and neighboring gun
Bird may fly or beast my run,
Let this maxim e'er be thine;
"Follow not across the line."
Stops and beaters, oft unseen,
Calm and steady always be;
"Never shoot where you can't see."
Keep your place and silent be;
Game can hear, and game can see;
Don't be greedy, better spared
Is a pheasant, than one shared.
You may kill, or you may miss,
But at all times think of this
"All the pheasants ever bred
Won't repay for one man dead."
Yessiree- you got the right Limey on this set of "Gunner's Words of Wisdom" Old "Tum-Tum" was a spoiled brat who thought he could do whatever he pleased, including boinking his shooting companions wives-If he had shot a peasant in a nearby leafy tree, doubt he would have lost any sleep over it- same cavalier Limey attitude to the porters and coal miners from Cornwall- if they die in a mine blast accident, there are others in line hungry enough to take their places-
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Actually Edward VII was more German than English. Mother half German, father German. Mother preferred to speak German and the kids were brought up fluent in it.
What's this about Cornwall? There's no coal down there. Lagopus.....
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Actually Edward VII was more German than English. Mother half German, father German. Mother preferred to speak German and the kids were brought up fluent in it.
What's this about Cornwall? There's no coal down there. Lagopus..... OK- Cornwall, Cornhole, Cornwallis, Cornforth, Corn Whiskey, Corn on the Cob-- your choice. In MI- the miners in the UP were eating a Cornish dish called a pasty- a meat pie in a heavy wrapped dough crust- which they warmed up at mealtime on the blade of their shovels over something- or so the legend goes.
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