Word: pigeoning
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...three-handed pigeon match was shot at Liverpool yesterday, at 100 yards, for Pound100 a side, Dr. Carver, at 31 yards, shooting against Mr. Graham at 29 yards, and Mr. Fowler, the Scotch champion, at 28 yards. Dr. Carver won easily...
...pigeon shooting match at the Union Gun Club grounds, Hendon, yesterday, between Dr. Carver and Mr. Bingham, at the end of the day's shooting the scores for both days were as follows: Dr. Carver, 249 birds; Mr. Bingham, 244 birds. Today's shooting closes the match, the number of birds having been reduced from 500 to 300 each, by mutual consent...
...open a few "boating men," who are disgusted with the management of "club system," will probably charter one of Blakey's shells for their private use; so we may expect to see before long a "gentleman-six" on the Charles. To speak of the Fencing Club and the Pigeon-Shooting Club is but to mention other phases of the same spirit of progress. But the greatest advance we have yet noticed in this direction is the organization of a Philosophical Society. Debating societies and associations for the critical examination of heliotypes are all very well in their way; but here...
...started a Pigeon Shooting Club. The next event of the season will probably be the appearance of the Beck Hall Coaching Club...
...will serve as a protection; yet, why not take all possible precautions, especially when the sparrows are such an easy acquisition? Last year the few robins in the yard did their duty for a while, but eventually grew so fat that they could compete in size with an ordinary pigeon, and could scarcely reach the tops of the trees. Though Boston has lost its Granary Elms, let Harvard still retain the beautiful foliage of its college elms, and afford some material for the sentimentalists of the University...