Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 188W. Blackwood, 1910 - Scotland |
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Page 63
... reason for com- ing so far to shoot the pheasant , or wild chicken as they call it . One tame fowl is worth about twopence up there , and as they think a wild fowl is not worth nearly so much , they decide that the Englishman must ...
... reason for com- ing so far to shoot the pheasant , or wild chicken as they call it . One tame fowl is worth about twopence up there , and as they think a wild fowl is not worth nearly so much , they decide that the Englishman must ...
Page 67
... reasons ; I spoiled the only one I ever had as a boy by using it , in fishing , as a sinker . But I foresee , in the possession of a " That's all very well for gipsies , but I could never think it very wise or right in a gentle- man ...
... reasons ; I spoiled the only one I ever had as a boy by using it , in fishing , as a sinker . But I foresee , in the possession of a " That's all very well for gipsies , but I could never think it very wise or right in a gentle- man ...
Page 73
... reasons for throwing off their old acquaint- ances . I hope I should never do that . I like to make new friends , but I'd rather not make them at all if it meant I was to turn my back on old ones . I hope that if I came into a great ...
... reasons for throwing off their old acquaint- ances . I hope I should never do that . I like to make new friends , but I'd rather not make them at all if it meant I was to turn my back on old ones . I hope that if I came into a great ...
Page 74
... reasons . Pen suddenly suspected something of the kind , and as usual did not beat about the bush . " I'd like to meet Miss Birrell , " she said ; " she seems to be the one outstanding female personality in Schaw- field . It's always ...
... reasons . Pen suddenly suspected something of the kind , and as usual did not beat about the bush . " I'd like to meet Miss Birrell , " she said ; " she seems to be the one outstanding female personality in Schaw- field . It's always ...
Page 78
... reason that I hope to learn in heaven . Meanwhile , mum's the word ! let us still dissemble and pretend that superintendence calls for some peculiar kind of genius . Hum- phrey , poor devil ! never sus- pects the truth or he'd have ...
... reason that I hope to learn in heaven . Meanwhile , mum's the word ! let us still dissemble and pretend that superintendence calls for some peculiar kind of genius . Hum- phrey , poor devil ! never sus- pects the truth or he'd have ...
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