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" Chantrey was placed in the gravel-pit that you will remember just under the Hall. I was standing next to him, but hid from him by the bank formed by the pit. Knowing how keen a sportsman he was, I was amazed at seeing him running up to me without his... "
Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks - Page xxvii
edited by - 1857 - 120 pages
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All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, Volume 26

1871 - 630 pages
...gravel-pit that, you will remember, ia just under the Hall. I was standing next to him. but hidden from him by the bank formed by the pit. Knowing how...directions ; but when I saw him waving his Peruvian hat" (Chantrey loved to " get himself up" in a picturesque way when with a shooting party) " over his head,...
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All the Year Round, Volume 6

1871 - 632 pages
...just under the Hall. I was standing next to him. but hidden from him by the bank formed by the pi:. Knowing how keen a sportsman he was. I was amazed...passing us in all directions; but when I saw him -waving hi.>Peruvian hat" (Chantrey loved to " get himself up" in a picturesque way when with a shooting party)...
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A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry ...

Oswald Crawfurd - 1895 - 354 pages
...the Rev. Spencer Stanhope. " Chantrey," says the latter gentleman, "was standing in the gravel pit just under the Hall. I was standing next to him, but...keen a sportsman he was, I was amazed at seeing him run up without his gun, waving his hat over his head. 'Two cocks at one shot ! ' burst from him." The...
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Kings of the Rod, Rifle, and Gun, Volume 1

Willmott Willmott-Dixon - 1901 - 394 pages
...both be recognised as very graphic features in the scene depicted. Writing to his friend Mr. Collyer, Mr. Stanhope says : ' Perhaps you would like to have...saw him waving his Peruvian hat over his head, and distinguished his joyous countenance, I knew that all was right. " Two COCKS AT ONE SHOT ! " burst...
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Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke ..., Volume 2

Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling - 1908 - 652 pages
..." Perhaps you would like to have my recollections of the day. Chantrey was placed in the gravel pit just under the hall. I was standing next to him, but...saw him waving his Peruvian hat over his head, and distinguished his joyous countenance, I knew that all was right. ' Two cocks at one shot I ' burst...
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Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke, First Earl ...

Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling - 1912 - 730 pages
..." Perhaps you would like to have my recollections of the day. Chantrey was placed in the gravel pit just under the hall. I was standing next to him, but hid from him by the bank fprmed by the pit. Knowing how keen a sportsman he was, I was amazed at seeing him running up to me...
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