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Breakfast at Shotover, except for the luxurious sluggards to wholish fashion--any otheris, detested custolish unable to jeer in any language except his own Which is partly why Alderdene and Voucher were there And this British sideboard breakfast was a concession wrung froh the custom had already becouests were entertained

But at the British breakfast he drew the line No army of servants, always in evidence, would he tolerate, either; no highly orna halls and corners; no exotic pheasants hustled into covert and out again; no fusillade at the wretched, frightened, bewildered aliens dumped by the thousand into unfauns by ias in this white man's country," he said with unnecessary eave hiner his personal opinions on field sport "You'll load your own guns and you'll use your own legs if you shoot with , too And if anybody desires a Yankee's opinion on shooting driven birds frorand-stands, they can have it right now!"

Usually nobody wanted his further opinion; and soot it and sometimes not, if his ithin earshot Otherwise Ferrall appeared to be a noretically devoted to his business, his pleasures, his friends, and comfortably in love with his wife And if so in our was always exercised within the law He never transgressed the rules of war, but his headlong energy sometimes landed him close to the dead line He had already breakfasted, when the earliest risers entered the ate the si contents of silver-covered dishes on the warrance of coffee was pleasantly perceptible;attire roamed about the room, selected what they cared for, and carried it to the table Mrs Morti peaches that ruous in field costu else, and always, like her own hunters,a breakfast for her own consumption with the leisurely precision characteristic of her whether in the saddle, on the box, or grassing her brace of any covey that ever flushed