Then the gun suddenly appears in the air, perhaps fifteen feet high, while the catch depends not only upon the dexterity of the hand but the ear--to judge correctly where the person who throws it is standing, as he is invisible.
The spaniels plunged in the brook among the flags, but though they made a great splashing nothing came of it till we approached a marshy place where was a pond.

A moorhen then rose and scuttled down the brook, her legs dragging along the surface some distance before she could get up, and the sunshine sparkling on the water that dropped from her.

I fired and knocked her over: at the sound of the discharge a bird rose from the low mound by the pond some forty yards ahead.

My second barrel was empty in an instant.
Both Orion's followed; but the distance, the intervening pollard willows, or our excitement spoilt the aim.

The woodcock flew off untouched, and made straight away from the territories we could beat into those that were jealously guarded by a certain keeper with whom Farmer 'Willum' had waged war for years.