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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., by E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34630/34630-h/34630-h.htm The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., by E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. Author: E. OE. Somerville Martin Ross Release Date: January 15, 2011 [EBook #34630] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M. *** Produced by Al Haines SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M. by E. OE. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN ROSS THOMAS NELSON & SONS LTDLONDON EDINBURGH PARIS MELBOURNETORONTO AND NEW YORK Reprinted by permission ofMessrs. Longmans Green & Co., Ltd. CONTENTS I. GREAT-UNCLE MCCARTHYII. IN THE CURRANHILTY COUNTRYIII. TRINKET'S COLTIV. THE WATERS OF STRIFEV. LISHEEN RACES, SECOND-HANDVI. PHILIPPA'S FOX-HUNTVII. A MISDEALVIII. THE HOLY ISLANDIX. THE POLICY OF THE CLOSED DOORX. THE HOUSE OF FAHYXI. OCCASIONAL LICENSESXII. "OH LOVE! OH FIRE!" SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M. I GREAT-UNCLE McCARTHY A Resident Magistracy in Ireland is not an easy thing to come by nowadays; neither is it a very attractive job; yet on the evening when I first propounded the idea to the young lady who had recently consented to become Mrs. Sinclair Yeates, it seemed glittering with possibilities. There was, on that occasion, a sunset, and a string band playing "The Gondoliers," and there was also an ingenuous belief in the omnipotence of a godfather of Philippa's—(Philippa was the young lady)—who had once been a member of the Government. I was then climbing the steep ascent of the Captains towards my Majority. I have no fault to

By Sporting Road|June 11th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Foxhunting|Comments Off

Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics-Speed Reading

This changed my life, I got it during law school and did all of the exercises, which requires listening to the material, timed tests, writing out things in a workbook, etc. It took about a week. Then I felt like I was slowing down, so I did it about 5 years later. I have it on cassette tape. It’s $199 online MP3 download, but they have it on CDs on ebay, which is better, assuming you have a way to play CDs for like $30. Libraries should also have it. It was very famous in the 1970-80’s with business executives, even Presidents of the United States. It quadrupled my reading speed and increased my comprehension. I can read a book a night, in 1-3 hours, with 90-95% comprehension, which is fine for the non-fiction type books that I enjoy. Here is my copy of the workbook below, but you really need the tapes, CDs, or MP3 downloads to go along with it. This will change your life and make you a much faster reader than you were before taking the course. Evelyn-Woods-Reading-DynamicsDownload

By Sporting Road|October 8th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Are You Ready to Become a Side by Side Wingshooting Predator?

Are You Ready to Become a Side by Side Wingshooting Predator? If so, order Buz Fawcett's Instinctive Shooting book today. For many decades, Buz taught over 500 graduates to shoot side by side shotguns and he guaranteed to get you shooting 75-99% accuracy or your money back. This is the method to up your side by side game, in a way that is purely instinctive shooting, and which follows in the long shooting traditions of many before him such as Robert Churchill, although they never knew of one another's works in the field of shotgunning. https://smile.amazon.com/Instinctive-Shooting-Making-Fawcett-Hardcover/dp/B011MC485M/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537998830&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Instinctive+Shooting+-+Trade+Cloth

By Sporting Road|September 26th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Comments Off

How to Talk to Anyone
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How to Talk to Anyone

This was an excellent book for anyone who wishes to improve their ability to communicate in person with real people, an essential skill in life that many are lacking. Maxims – Hold solid eye contact with everyone as much as possible. – Speak with sincerity and passion Notes The way you move is your autobiography. Part 1: How to intrigue everyone without saying a word You only have 10 seconds to show your somebody First nine techniques–come across as a special person without saying anything Smile big at the right time. Women who were slower to smile in the corporate world are perceived as more credible. The flooding smile: when meeting someone, don’t smile right away. Pause for a moment, then let a big flooding smile go over your mouth and eyes. This will give them the impression that the smile is more genuine Use your eyes–strong eye contact gives the impression of respect and affection. It also gives the impression of being an abstract thinker. The sticky eyes technique: hold your gaze as much as possible. When talking about personal matters with another men, hold your gaze a little less. The epoxy see eyes technique: hold gaze on the subject even when another party is speaking. Conveys intense confidence and interest in the subject. Use with caution. Watch your posture whenever you walk through a doorway. Hold your head high, your shoulders back, and your torso out. This will convey confidence and command respect. the big baby pit it-turn your full body toward a new acquaintance and smile Hello old friend-pretend that the person you are meeting is an old friend When you act as though you like someone, you actually like the more.

By Sporting Road|June 26th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Comments Off

Born to Run Reminded Me of Why I Love Running
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Born to Run Reminded Me of Why I Love Running

Any equestrian knows that the following excerpt "that a human's stride is longer than a horse's stride" is an exaggerated claim by the author who loves urnning, but I loved the book, Born to Run, anyway, as it well written and has great tips on diet and science which are fascinating for all athletes, not just runners. But ask any horse person, and they will tell you that a horse has a 12-foot stride at a hand canter and scientists have shown, for instance, that Secretariat (24.5 ft) had a foot shorter average stride length than American Pharoah (25.23 ft) at the gallop, but was able to run faster. When a human runs, if he has a 12-foot stride, let alone a 25-foot one, I'd love to see that human. I think he was referring to the length of stride of a horse's trot, which is about 4-4.5 feet. When exercise physiologist, Jack Daniels, analyzed human runners' stride lengths at the 1984 Olympics, he found that women distance runners had an average stride length of 58 inches, while women sprinters averaged strides of 80 inches. For men, the average stride was 74 inches for distance runners and 93 inches for sprinters. So he got it right if that is what he meant. Anyway, it is a great book, and be sure and try the pinole recipe. In BORN TO RUN: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall writes: Together, Dr. Bramble and David Carrier began putting their World’s Greatest Marathoner model to the test. Soon, evidence was turning up all over, even in places they weren’t looking. One of their first big discoveries came by accident when David took

By Sporting Road|April 9th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews, Running|Comments Off

Food Lover’s Guide to Denver
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Food Lover’s Guide to Denver

The Food Lover's Guide to Denver features our favorite Braised Colorado Goat Taco recipe and loads of other Denver foodie secrets. We like to buy our goat meat at Arash International Marker, 2720 S. Parker Road, Aurora, 303-752-9272 (where we also stock up on other Middle East ingredients. Serve it up with New Mexico green chile pico de gallo and corn tortilla chips. Goat is not very popular in European and North American cuisine. Probably because it is not available in tenderloin or steak form. However, goats are not confined, less likely to be fed grain, not implanted with growth hormones or antibiotices, and not castrated. Further, it has more iron and protein than most meats, and less cholesterol and saturated fats. Goat meat, also known as chevon, is actually one of the cleanest, healthiest meats available. FOOD-LOVERS-GUIDE-TO-DENVER

By Sporting Road|November 8th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Recipes|Comments Off

Books and Articles Featuring Our Legendary Bird Dog Trainer Gary Ruppel and His Kiowa Creek Kennels
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Books and Articles Featuring Our Legendary Bird Dog Trainer Gary Ruppel and His Kiowa Creek Kennels

Gary Ruppel of Kiowa, Colorado, has been helping me train my bird dogs for 20 years at his Kiowa Creek Kennels and before that at some local gun clubs. I remember calling him when I got my first 8-week old Brittany puppy from a famous field trial lines, and the field trailer had asked to bring him back for summer camp when he was four months old. I asked Gary, “When should I come out and start training with you, in two months?” I’ll never forget Gary saying, “You are already four months late, I start training them in the womb, bring him out tomorrow.” Gary says that he starts training in the womb, like mother’s read to their unborn children. He first bonds with the bitch, which is the foundation of all of his training. “If the dog doesn’t do it because he loves you, you’ll never really get the full potential out of that dog. You can do all the old methods of force breaking and whatever else you can think of, but a dog that it is doing something out of fear, rather than love, will never be performing at full potential.” He says, “My pups already have heard all of the whistle commands when they are born, as they have head them in the womb.” Books Featuring Gary Ruppel Training the Versatile Retreiver to Hunt Upland Birds By Bill Tarrant Bill Tarrant has authored the first book designed to show the retriever enthusiast how to train his dog to hunt upland birds. Bill got together with the four top retriever trainers in America today: Mike Gould, shooting Labs; Gary Ruppel, pointing Labs; Butch Goodwin, Chesapeakes; and Jim Charlton, Golden

By Sporting Road|February 22nd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Dog Training|Comments Off

BBQ
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BBQ

After reading Low & Slow, where the author graduates starts with a Weber Smokey Mountain ("WSM"), bought several "magic bullets" to make his barbecue better and then then returns to proclaim the WSM the best, after he "made every mistake (at least twice) and got suckered into buying all the bells and whistles... [but concludes] you don't have to," I have since concluded that my wish list for a Big Green Egg ("BGE") may be unnecessary. All methods of the barbeque, or the ancient French de barbe et queue ("beard to tail") start with a platform of a wood-burning fire. My French friend longed for a Weber Go Anywhere, which we hand carried to him, as charcoal barbeque grills are banned in France as being too high of a forest fire rick, but as the French government would have it, charcoal itself, by paradox, is not banned. The first secret of Low & Slow, by Gary Wiviott, is the WSM, which is great, as we already have one, sparking the first debate about which rig is best. The second is using lump charcoal, instead of baguettes and lighter fluid, which the King of BBQ Myron Mixon, disagrees with, favoring charcoal, a chimney, and lighter fluid. Hence, the second debate. Add the charcoal or baguettes in a chimney and newspaper underneath, light and burn for 10 minutes until white hot. Add to the grill and wait 5 minutes. The third component, sparks no debate, which is add fruit wood chunks (not mesquite, hickory, or other hardwoods). Then the fourth debate, to add a hot water bath pan or not, to which they both agree to add. Wait 5 more minutes, and you are at about 20 minutes overall to get the grill ready for cooking. With the WSM, you will need to add more unlit charcoal every 30 minutes

By Sporting Road|February 21st, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Recipes|Comments Off

Instinctive Shooting: The Making of a Master Gunner [Now Published in Hardcover]
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Instinctive Shooting: The Making of a Master Gunner [Now Published in Hardcover]

At long last the book is published as of July 9, 2013. Order your copy today through Amazon or other retailers. Learn to point and shoot like a pro. Here, point and shoot.” These words from his father propelled Buz Fawcett’s shooting success as a child, gaining him a number of High Gun awards at local trap clubs by the time he was fourteen. Because of his success, his father awarded him his grandfather’s Model 1912 Winchester, which he mastered, even though it “kicked the whey” out of him. However, his amazing shooting abilities as a kid didn’t follow him into adulthood. Fawcett entered into what he calls his “Dark Ages” of shooting after accepting an associate editor position at Sports Afield in New York City, where he had to read and edit what other gunmen were writing about shooting techniques. Eventually, he took a position as editor of Guns & Ammo magazine, located in California. He soon found himself in a position where he could shoot as much as he liked. After a number of years and extensive research into shooting methods, Fawcett rediscovered his talents through a technique called “Instinctive Shooting.” This research and a lot of practice finally led to teaching a workshop on instinctive shooting to help others become adept at this miraculous “point and shoot” method. Instinctive Shooting is Fawcett’s guide for other gunmen, describing exactly how and what needs to be done to achieve the ultimate shooting instincts. Practical and hands-on, the book covers such topics as determining your dominant eye, achieving proper shotgun fit, how to correct point and shoot, selecting equipment, practice regimens, mounting, and much more. 150 color Illustrations http://www.amazon.com/Instinctive-Shooting-Making-Master-Gunner/dp/1620877023

By Sporting Road|July 16th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews, Wingshooting|Comments Off

Eat Like a Wild Man

This collection is some of the wildest, most delicious wild game and fish recipes that "Sports Afield" magazine has published over the lasts 110 years, lifelong food connoisseur and cookbook author Rebecca Gray has selected and infused a collection of wonderful old standards with her own culinary wizardry. We love this cookbook! If you are looking to harvest your own wild food in Colorado, this site is great www.wildfoodgirl.com and she has a list of Colorado plants you can wild forage.

By Sporting Road|June 23rd, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews, Recipes|Comments Off