Word: pigeoning
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...rumored that a club for clay pigeon shooting is to be started here...
...would propose a club in which men could not only get that training which will be of use to them in shooting deer on an Adriondack runway, or moose in the Maine woods, but in which they can also get a sufficient amount of glass-ball or clay-pigeon practice to bring them into good form for their summer's field work among the birds...
...appointed for this afternoon and tomorrow will be made to Gloucester and Pigeon Cove instead of to Plymouth as formerly announced. The meet will start at 1 P. M. from in front of University. All who intend going will please drop word to that effect at No. 1 Holworthy...
...pass through the forbidden door "into the loft." This abounds in unfinished woodwork and undisturbed dust. Through the middle runs the picturesque ventilator, which might be converted into an elevator for passengers to the tower (two cents a trip). After much climbing we reach the balcony (where the pigeon holes are), and here the elevator ends and the misery from coal-gas begins. After climbing an almost perpendicular ladder for about thirty feet through the "top-loft," we pass through the last of the many trap-doors and stand upon the summit of "our boarding house." Although it was raining...
...bringing together of two utterly incongruous elements in such a manner as to make them appear ludicrous, Miss Asphyxia was a huge joke. When young Butterfield came down stairs with his hair nicely oiled and parted, and brushed up on each side in the form of a pigeon-wing, and his store clothes on, he was immediately struck by the appearance of Asphyxia, and the only thing he could think of was the Rollo books which he had found a few years before in the Sunday School library of his native town, Saug Centre. He began to wonder...