Irish Sport of Yesterday (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

W. Long, A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330150007 ISBN 13: 9781330150009

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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After we had left some small station the train suddenly came to a halt, and the guard, engine driver and fireman held an excited conversation on the line: after a considerable time we learnt from a fellow-passenger that the train's staff had been left behind at the last station and that the guard dare not proceed without it. Further questioning informed us that we were on a single line, and that no train was allowed to leave the station without the staff for the next station.

It looked as though we were stuck indefinitely, but luck was with us the guard suddenly appeared to go mad, yelling, and blowing his whistle, and waving his arms at a man riding a bicycle on the road, which at this point ran parallel with the rail way line. It seemed that the cyclist was a friend of the guard's, and, after the promise of gallons of porter, was induced to ride back to the last station, with a note to the station master to hand over the staff without delay.

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For some time past my brother Charles and I had been seriously thinking of taking a shooting lodge in the wild west of Ireland for a winter: and, after a long correspondence, had at last hit on what seemed a sportsman's paradise. According to the owner game of every kind seemed to be touching each other on this particular estate - grouse, snipe, geese, plover, duck of all kinds, hares, curlew and woodcock: poachers were unheard of, the shooting lodge a home from home, and as for the setters - well, it would seem that they could do anything bar talk.

Our first effort to take a shooting, an advertisement in the Irish Times, was most unfortunate: for, though it produced many answers from different parts of Ireland, hardly one had any reference to the kind of shooting we required.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330150007
• ISBN 13: 9781330150009
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310