Good Stories to Tell
W7ILEN a man has shot game from ” Alaska to the Equator, has founded the Society of Big Game Hunters of England, and is described as expert at fishing and falconry and "formerly ooxiug and lawn tennis, ” he must have many good stories to tell, and in ‘Round the Smoking-room Fire,” Major C. E. Kadciyffc tells them. He has had some interesting friends; Sir Claude, de Crespigny, who once, at iLudy Meux’s invitation, fought and beat the family butler after dinner; iVlr. \V. Spiller, who caught his first fish at the age of 73, and remarked, • Well, what i have missed all my life by not being a fisherman J never knew till now”; Mr. Frank Barker, wno, shooting ut a target, beat a crack revolver shot with a catapult; ahd an Irish farmer who, asked if there were any foxes in the neighborhood, replied: "Foxes, y’r honor! Shu re it’s devil a bit can i sleep at night for the foxes crunching the chickens’ bones under the window!” A gay and open-air nook which will entertain more than
sportsmen.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18313, 3 February 1934, Page 9
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183Good Stories to Tell Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18313, 3 February 1934, Page 9
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