Excerpt from Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches, 1896, Vol. 13: A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of British, Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Sport
Mr. Daly's, sir - this gentleman's,' and as he spoke, he indicated a little, groomy-looking man, with an unmistakably Irish face and shifting eyes, that never seemed to rest upon any one object for more than a moment at a time.
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