NOTES OF THE MONTH, 



PRODIGIOUS SHOT. Archery is all the rage the kingdom is ring- 

 ing with the twang of the bow-string from one end to the other. 



" Friday week a meeting of the Royal British Bowmen took place at Con- 

 dover Park, Shrewsbury, the mansion of E. W. Smythe Owen, Esq. In 

 addition to the members of the society, all of rank, about 200 of the nobility 

 and gentry of Salop and the principality, were present to witness the skill of 

 the ARCHERS." 



What a goodly sight of the ap- Joneses, the ap-Shenkinses, and the 

 ap- Jenkinses must have been here congregated, and being all of rank, 

 what a hubbub and spluttering must have ensued about precedence. 

 Each archer should have claimed from his length of leek. The 

 country was cleared for ten miles round, for fear of accidents from 

 stray shafts such was the prodigious vigour of the archers. 



Here are a couple of candidates for honours one is recorded by 

 the Sherbourn Journal: 



" EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING. Mr. W. Noble, of Cleadon, shot on 

 Tuesday last, in the moors near Elsdon, six brace and a half of grouse at 

 two successive shots !" 



Again ; 



" W. Tingecombe, Esq. killed at one discharge one hundred and eleven 

 sanderlings \" 



Prodigious ! we only know of our friend Major Longbow who 

 can rival these gentlemen ; and he being short of shot, once spitted 

 three brace of birds with his ramrod ! At all events, men of such 

 prowess would be worthy members of the Society of Royal British 

 Bowmen ; the only difficulty will be to find a bow long enough for 

 them to shoot with. 



THE " TENTH " ON ACTIVE SERVICE. We are glad to bear testi- 

 mony to the deserved reputation of this truly distinguished regiment. 

 The following are quotations from a respectable Dublin journal : 



" We understand that proceedings are about to be actively instituted 

 against an officer of the TENTH, for the seduction of a clergyman's wife." 



In another column we find the next : 



"NicE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE MILITARY. 'The Tenth,' it is said, 'don't 

 dance ;' but they drive tithe geese ! The Kilkenny Journal gives the follow- 

 ing extract from the letter of a Longford correspondent : I saw yesterday a 

 troop of the 10th Hussars driving in 12 geese, the property of Mr. Richard 

 Levinge, a Protestant, for tithes due to Dean Maxwell, brother to Lord 

 Farnham." 



We remember when a silly fuss was made some time ago about 

 the absurdity and puppyism of these warriors, an old officer remarked 

 to another, " These TENTH people are making great fools of them- 

 selves." " That would puzzle them," said the other, " they are fools 

 ready made !" We suspect that they are tired of the long enjoyment 

 of such a reputation, and are desirous of changing it. 



