Red Blood and Blue

Excerpt from Red Blood and Blue

The electric whir of fifty wings; the brown covey's level flight, as a charge of canister shot; a flash from a quickly raised gun, and then a tanned, sturdily-stepping boy, after having noted where the flushed quails had sunk again into the yellow sedge, made his way to his spoil, which, with one last tremor, was lying on the grass.

The boy picked up the bird, holding it in his palm and inspecting its plump beauty, the gleam of the hunter in his eyes.

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