The Badminton Magazine 1898-08: Vol 7 Iss 37 (1898)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 37
able to do anything, though I felt as cold and sick as if I had swallowed a live frog. ‘It is the demoiselle who has brought the luck, and we shall always speak of this as the lady’s day,’ they cried in their joy; but they were fortunately too excited running after the sloguies to notice that I did… … and I having outdistanced the rest, he demanded my pocket knife for the cowp-de-grice. I said then that it was time to go home. Personally I consider thirteen hours in the saddle enough any day, but, combined with distinct murder, it is more than sufficing. These falcons were invariably fed on…
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