[Gutenberg 46833] • Hector Graeme

Excerpt from Hector Graeme

Most provoking you should have the worst place for this drive, Mr. Graeme, she said at length it will be the best of the day, I know, and the birds always fly over the centre and right.

Don't you worry about that, Miss Caldwell, answered Hector it's the luck of the draw; and anyway the birds will come to me all right, you see if they don't.

Indeed they will not; they'll make for that field of roots over there, they always do.

Not this time, I think. Birds are curious things they like coming to the best shot and that I am, here anyway. Gad, I don't believe I could miss to-day. Confess, Miss Caldwell, you don't often see such shooting as mine, now do you?

Lucy frowned. She had been taught to look upon brag ging of any sort as an impossible thing, and the remark jarred.

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