VILLAGER: "So you ain't had no luck this morning?" KEEPER: "No luck! 'E missed me twice!" Leonard Raven-Hill (1867-1942). Signed "L Ravenhill" lower left. Source: "Our Graphic Humourists: L. Raven Hill." The Magazine of Art (20 December 1896): 497. A villager going off to a shoot, complete with gun and gun-dog, commiserates with the game-keeper, an elderly man with a stick, who is returning more or less empty-handed on the same lane. But the keeper needs no sympathy: he is cheerful because he at least escaped being shot by (perhaps) the squire, who is evidently a poor marksman! The quick exchange is entirely natural, with another villager ahead of the first speaker, and a girl hurrying past with a bucket, turning her head slightly at the sound of voices. The rural scene is deftly imagined in every detail.
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"Our Graphic Humourists: L. Raven Hill." The Magazine of Art. Vol. 19 (1896): 493-97. Internet Archive. Digitizing sponsor: Kahle-Austin Foundation. Web. 20 December 2021.
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