... some containing as many as eight young birds, whilst others have only three or four. Record bags will not be made, but, speaking generally, sportsmen rilay anticipate good sport, but not up to Hie average of the last two or three seasons, which on some ...

... Gloucestershire have, negatively speaking, enjoyed a most successful season. Though they have lost almost as many matches as the weakest ofthe counties, they have in turn robbed Surrey, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire of their chance of the In fact, since ...

... ROUND THE COAST. T H E pastime. of yachtmg can, roughly speaking, be cli,·icled into two parts, viz., racing and cruising, and these can again be sub-divided, for there are many ways of enjoy- ing both forms of our great maritime amusement. Racing can ...

... afloat, and made our way clown s tream. On this part of the Tlnm:!s Sunday is little different from any other day. Generally speaking, there are even fewer p :: ople about, but there appeared a consiJerable increase in the number of anglers, chiefly boys ...

... some containing as many as eight young birds, whilst others have only three or four. Record bags will not be made, but, speaking generally, sportsmen rilay anticipate good sport, but not up to Hie average of the last two or three seasons, which on some ...

... the platform was doomed to Again, when collapse, not merely into the ground, but into a positive abyss. Again, Mr. vV!lliams speaks of foreign countries he falls into considerable error. Th.! foreign cultivator is, as a rule, practically untaxed. What ...

... 73, made many years ago now, must still remain the record for the full no niggard spirit of carping criticism that one so speaks of t!lese more recent scores, but in sheer justice to the memory of young Hugh, who would have been the last, even when alive ...

... Aug. 14th, 1897. J M will speak ill of Essie for twenty-four hours-she gave me such a lovely time. again in town, regretting the cheery delights of the dead and gone festivity, and worrying the head of the family to ignore his Parliamentary duties and ...

... could only be found for eight and a-half, four and a-half, ami five couples of puppies respectively, and that at the time I speak of at most ten couples would ue sent out, it uecomes ident that the ~ ! aste r could not have very much chance to Greed both ...

... 11. Cra,\·ford 's \Vild Flowers of Scut- It is, moreover, exquisitely equipped-we speak from the point of view land. It is, moreover, exquisitely equipped-we speak from the point of view of the man of average cultiYation, not from the standpoint olthe ...

... itself. On the other hand, grouse driving requires far less walking on the part of the guns; the anticipation period, so to speak, is shorter, as it is only during a part of the time in each drive that shots can reas:Jnably be expected, yet when birds do ...

... information is forthcoming as to the age or the builder of a yacht, it is never advisable to buy such a one, for, generally speaking, there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. In conclusion, we may say that in nearly every case it will be found ...