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Run with The Fox,

They mined tin & copper in Cornwall not coal. I suggest you read more & post less.

Right back attcha- they also mined copper in Michigan's UP- where the Cornish pasty meals were a carry-over from Cornwall, Limey land- Assuming that you, like most of the laddies here support the 2nd. Amendment (as do I- and I am a NRA "Lifer" as well, so I "put my $ where my mouth may be"-- I also support the 1st. Amendment, as does our genial host- Davey Weber- so unless he tells me I am posting more than I should, I shall therefore regard your suggestion as "A fart in a Wind Tunnel at Mach 3"- Capish??

Run With The Fox,

I've been to the U.P. & have consumed my fair share of pasty meals & I'm well aware of the Cornish connection.

My point re. suggesting that you read more & post less is that if you insist on posting drivel then please get your facts correct before you post.

Sorry Zorro but your spanish royally sucks!

JC

P.S.: btw, bull is "toro" not "torro".

Probably does not matter, since we know the posts are mostly bullshit.

LOL!

JC

The anecdote I referred to above (and got it wrong from memory), told by Ripon in "King Edward as a Sportsman"

I can remember none of a sufficiently impersonal nature to publish which would be likely to interest the reader, except perhaps the following rather strange experience at Bradgate, the late Lord Stamford's country place, where I was shooting with his late Majesty, then Prince of Wales. The masters of the works at Leicester, not many miles from the Bradgate estate, gave their men a halfholiday, and they came out literally in their thousands to see the sport. After luncheon the head keeper
approached Lord Stamford and remarked :
' I fear, my lord, that it will be impossible to have more than
one drive this afternoon.'
'Why,' Lord Stamford inquired, *we have two more coverts to shoot ?
' Yes, my lord,' the keeper answered, ' but there
are some four thousand people between us and the
next covert.'
One large fifty-acre field was absolutely crammed
with spectators. Lord Stamford asked me and another
gun if we minded going into the crowd and guarding
that side of the covert. Of course we did so, and the
scene which ensued was extraordinary. As we shot
the pheasants coming over, they fell among the crowd,
who seized them and tore them to pieces in their
eagerness to secure them. It was somewhat foggy,
and several people climbed up into the trees to obtain
a better view. My friend, not noticing this, was very
near shooting one of the aerial spectators, and it was
merely a matter of luck that he did not do so. His
surprise was extreme when, firing what he never doubted
to be a perfectly safe shot well up in the air, he heard
a voice from above crying out, ' Hi ! hi ! that was too near !' It had never, of course, occurred to him that the trees were populated.

Humpty-Dumpty, you may be interested in a new book that has come out on the life and times of the 2nd. Marquis of Ripon, as he later became known. Just entitled 'Olly'; which was his nickname. Orderable from www.rupertgodfrey.co.uk Limited edition to 1,500 copies. I shall be at the Gamefair later next month and hope to get a copy from there. It has only just become available. Lagopus.....

Thanks! That's indeed very interesting! Even the price seems reasonable compared to what gun books usually fetch... too bad I can't afford it right now, but hope the finances get better in mid-autumn and it will still be available.

lagopus,

Thank you for the tip on the book re.the 2nd Marquis of Ripon. It looks like an interesting book on quite a character. I was unaware of it until your post. Safari Press has it here in the states & I'm ordering my copy today.