Sketches — Volume 03 by Robert Seymour
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page 21 of 30 (70%)
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No, not a bit!
"It's wery strange, I do declare; I never see! I go at sky-larks in the hair Or on a tree." "It's all the same, they fly away Has I let fly-- The birds is frightened, I dare say, And vill not die." "Vhy, here's a go! I hav'nt ramm'd In any shot; The birds must think I only shamm'd, And none have got." "I'll undeceive 'em quickly now, I bet a crown; And whether fieldfare, tit, or crow, Vill bring 'em down." And as he spake a pigeon flew Across his way-- Bang went his piece--and Jenkins slew The flutt'ring prey. He bagg'd his game, and onward went, When to his view Another rose, by fortune sent |
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