MOKE, a donkey.—_Gipsey._

MOKO, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake in

partridge shooting during September, before the pheasant shooting comes

in. They pull out their tails, and roundly assert they are no pheasants

at all, but MOKOS.

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