Quote#Nature
And they tried to rag me in the smoking room about not being able to…
Quote bySaki · 1870–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reginald (1904), "Reginald on House-Parties".
English (original)
And they tried to rag me in the smoking room about not being able to hit a bird at five yards, a sort of bovine ragging that suggested cows buzzing round a gadfly and thinking they were teasing it. So I got up the next morning at early dawn – I know it was dawn, because there were lark-noises in the sky, and the grass looked as if it had been left out all night.
— Saki
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