TAME WILD PHEASANTS.
A picture over the mantelpiece picturing a noble lord pheasant shootin? in his covert* once fired my ambition to become this type of super-t=portsman. as distinct from the .roitghneck variety who with knif-e and dogs beard the Captain Cooker in his lair. Being timid, tlio portability of Ix-injr pecked by a desperate bird has prevented this ambition from being realised s.i far. but tlie releasing bv the Acclimatisation Society of pheasants so tame that we stumble over them, feed them with our fowls and cha*e them off the front verandah brings renewed hope. A few beaters to herd them toward the muzzle of my gun and even I may become a euper-sportsman. Farmers are looking forward with joy to May 2. the opening day of the shooting season—when the kitchen door will acquire a speckled look, the pedigree bull facial eczema on his opposite end and the tank turn into a lawn sprinkler. They are erecting '-Welcome" triumphal arches and teaching the children the Xasty salute. To prevent congestion in the district, kindlv omit address. G. E. XALDER. *
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 6
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181TAME WILD PHEASANTS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 6
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