Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: October 1984
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780151273584
First sentence: The woodcock is hard to shoot because of its zig-zag flight, and Mr John Rutter Carden of Barnane Castle, Tipperary, was generally known as Woodcock Carden because he also seemed impervious to gunshot.