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Briscoe and Mr. Bankes, looking uneasily up into the sky, observed that the
flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun had settled on the tops
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<DIV>In Agatha Christie’s “The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor” (which appeared in
“Poirot Investigates”, 1924; story originally published in “The Sketch” in
1923), a rook rifle is relevant:</DIV>
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<DIV>Rook rifle:</DIV>
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_rifle" rook_rifle?? wiki
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<DIV>No longer relevant nowadays, of course:</DIV>
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<DIV>Oh dear:</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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