The Laird (to little Tomkyns, who is being initiated into the mysteries of deer-stalking). "Don't move a step. Lie down where you are!"


HOW MOSSOO SHOT THE COCK-PHEASANT

(The Gamekeeper's Story)

He were a sort o' Frenchman, sir,

And called hisself a Duck:

I never could make head or tail

O' that there furrin muck!