[Vwoolf] Shooting in "To the Lighthouse"

[Stuart N. Clarke]

“Lily 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 of the elm trees.”

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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poirot_Investigates

Rook rifle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_rifle

No longer relevant nowadays, of course:



Oh dear:



Stuart
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