Identifier: outing58newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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sure, he occasionallygot a little mixed. At timeshe might try to flush quail inthe open, instead of standingthem, or would attempt toretrieve some perfectly livelyspecimens. Then Ben need-ed a licking and generally gotit. He lacked in his worksome of the finish and style ofthe dogs we used after grousein Michigan, but he was agood all-round dog for thework. Furthermore, he wasmost pleasant personally. Next door to him lived thedachshunds. The dachshunds were a mar-vel, a nuisance, a bone of contention, ananomaly, an accident and a farce. Theyhappened because somebody had oncegiven the hostess a pair of them. I.donot believe she cared particularly forthem, but she is good natured and theranch is large and they are rather amus-ing. At the time of my first visit theoriginal pair had multiplied. Gazing onthat yardful of imbecile-looking canines,my admiration for Noahs wisdom in-creased ; he certainly needed no morethan a pair to restock the earth. Red-mond claimed there were twenty-two of
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s.i-m. NO ENGLISH, NO EMOTION, NO SINGLE RAY OF THESORT OF INTELLIGENCE REQUIRED TO PENE-TRATE INTO OUR OCCIDENTAL WORLD them; though nobody else pretended tohave been able to disentangle themenough for a census. They were all light brown in color,and the aggregation reminded me of arather disentangled bunch of angle-worms. They lived in a large enclosureand emerged therefrom only under su-pervision, for they considered chickensand young pigs their especial prey. TheCaptain looked upon them with exasper-ated tolerance; Redmond with affection ;the hostess, I think, with a good deal ofthe partisanship inspired, not so much byliking as by the necessity of defending 650 THE OUTING MAGAZINE them against ridicule; and the rest ofthe world with amused expectation as towhat they would do next. The Cap-tain was continually uttering half-seriousthreats as to the different kinds of sud-den death he was going to inflict on thewhole useless, bandy-legged, snipe-nosed,waggle-eared The best comment

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