It is said that the young duke was at the time among the Harz Mountains, and that the ambassadors found him in the homely attire of a sportsman in the fowling floor.

" "Oh!" cried John, with a laugh, "the ci-devant Captain Jarvis is a sportsman to your mind.

The true sportsmen of the period, amongst whom were the highest in the social and political world, took the same interest in contests in the ring as they did on the turf or in the cricket-field, and for the same reason.

Perhaps two sportsmen from some shooting-party in the neighborhood.

Will you, too, treat the poor wild uneducated sportsman as a Pariah and an outcast, because he is not ashamed to be a man?because he cannot stuff his soul's hunger with cut-and-dried hearsays, but dares to think for himself? because he wants to believe things, and dare not be satisfied with only believing that he ought to believe them?' She paused, astonished. 'Ah, yes,' he went on, 'I hoped too much!

His request was, however, negatived decidedly by Coubitant; who assured him, with assumed courtesy, that he regretted the size of the boat was too small to admit of its carrying a third sportsman with safety; but invited him to join him in the same sport the following day, when, he addedwith that smile that Oriana hatedJyanough could lend his horse to the pale-face, if he should happen to wish to hunt.

Their father and his brother, the latter still alive and a keen shot, were noted sportsmen at a time when game was more plentiful, shooting more generally practised, and when to be a good shot meant more than average excellence.

And good luck to ye in that same, for ye're as pretty a rider as ever kicked coping-stones out of a wall; and poor Paddy loves a sportsman by nature.

On the strength of it he mentioned Charles James Foxthere was a true gentleman and sportsman for you!

The flight is almost exactly like that of a quail or partridgeflight, I must say; for, in spite of all that has been learnedly written to the contrary, it was too difficult as yet for the English sportsmen on board to believe that their motion was not a true flight, aided by the vibration of the wings, and not a mere impulse given (as in the leap of the salmon) by a rush under water.

These blows were given at intervals so regular, that we all suspended smoking, certain that there were other sportsmen beside ourselves in the neighborhood of this lake.

And Colonel Onslow made a fresh motion, with a similar complaint of the publishers of six more newspapers"three brace," as he described them in language more sportsman like than parliamentary.

The Basset was not familiarly known to British sportsmen before 1863, in which year specimens of the breed were seen at the first exhibition of dogs held in Paris, and caused general curiosity and admiration among English visitors.

An excellent working terrier was the white, rough-haired strain kept by the Rev. John Russell in Devonshire and distributed among privileged sportsmen about Somersetshire and Gloucestershire.

That a man who fishes with a floating fly should be set down as a better sportsman than one who allows his fly to sink is, to my thinking, a narrow-minded argument, and one, moreover, that is not borne out by facts.

We always used to have a match with them every term; but some little time ago there seemed to be a lackwell, I'll say of good sportsmen among them, and the meetings had to be abandoned.

The country here is an excessively hard one to get about in with stock, owing to its very rugged nature and to the scarcity of feed, so that there is slight danger of the extermination of these elk by sportsmen during the open season.