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the poor birds had to lament, not only their sudden death at the 

 hands of a gentleman who was not their proper enemy, an artist 

 that is, not a sportsman, but that the monument which was to 

 perpetuate their fame did them no sort of posthumous honour. All 

 this would probably not have gone uns~aid had the epigrammatists 

 not been contemporaries and flatterers. Posterity, if it were now 

 called upon for an epigram, might word it as follows : 



Luckless our fate : a doubly luckless lot ; 

 A sportsman carved us whom an artist shot. 



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