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Title: All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Dykes, T
Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Fores, Piccadilly, W.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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nuine and honest,which I dojit. Well, she undid the line, and made to cast it intothe water, when—phew !—the whole casting-line was round herlovely figure, and every hook sunk up to the hackles in themuslin dress. MacLaverock had never been heard to swear,except once before, and that was when he was fined for street-preaching in his native town, but I think he must have relievedhimself with a bit aith at that time. By Jove ! said the stranger, I would have given a hundredpounds to have been in his place. No enough, lad, to get oot ot, if youll wait to hear mefinish. So nothing could be done, MacLaverock saw, but backthe boat ashore and assist the lady to undo the hooks, two ofwhich were caught in the bosom of her dress and one in the veryskirt. It was a ticklish job, but the old fellow tackled to it, andwith his left arm round her waist was busily engaged workingout his bob fly, a teal wing, when who should come upon thescene but the Colonel and his keeper. The lady gave the usual
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Bagging a Husband. 225 slight scream, and the Colonel gave the usual oath, and the game-keeper said, Guid preserve us, all arranged I have nae doot,and as I could have fetched out in cross-examination.MacLavcrock explained as well as he could, there was a goodhearty laugh over it, the flies were cut off from the gut, to beunfastened by the lively Norah at leisure; and after partakingof the Colonels hospitality. The MacLaverock returned home. Weel, gentlemen, as the nights getting late, and as we havegot a lot of grouse to kill the morn, I may explain, to make along story short, that Miss Norah not having sent the flics, theold skinflint MacLaverock wrote her for the lovely teal wingthat was fastened to her breast, and got it back with a veryaffectionate letter, and then there were one or two more meet-ings, and one or two more letters, and then just as the seasonwas finishing a visit from the Colonel, who demanded )-our in-tentions, Sorr, to my naace, the only daughter of my poorbroth

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