THE LITTLE BUSTARD. 



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game-bird we know there is some ordered plan of campaign 

 available, yet all efforts to outmatch the astute Sison 

 are vain, and end in vexation of spirit. He is a bird, as 

 the Spanish put it, of very unsympathetic nature ("muy 

 antipatico ") towards the fowler, and this is the more to 

 be regretted as his flesh is of fine pheasant-like flavour. 



