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"bowled over a nice right and left, but missed one of two 

 " other birds which got up almost immediately a little further 

 " on. Just beyond the brow of this hill we put up yet another 

 " bird, evideiitlj^ one of the same flock, but failed to get a shot 

 " on account of the trees. 



" The next beat in which Koklas had been marked down for 

 " us was some distance away from the hill just shot over, but 

 " there were one or two likely places en route and beating 

 " through these, we picked up a brace of Hill Partridge and 

 " A. also bagged a cock out of some oak bushes from which the 

 " spaniels flushed her. This, by the way^ was the only Wood- 

 " cock we saw all day on this occasion, though they are not 

 " uncommon, and indeed breed in the Galis. 



" Our third beat was a very long ravine running round the 

 " side of a hill, the steep hillside rising high above it on one 

 " side, whilst on the lower there was only a high bank, perhaps 

 " 30 or 40 feet higher than the centre of the ravine. A toss 

 " of a coin gave A. the choice of places, and he selected the 

 "side of the ravine next the hillside, whilst I took the lower. 

 " Immediately the dogs were let go, they shewed that birds 

 " had been on the ground, and feathering briskly, they work- 

 " ed up the hill after them. 



" They had moved on again, however, and nothing resulted 

 " for the time being, but about 200 yards further on it was 

 " evident that one of the dogs was close on to them, and pre- 

 " sently up they got, first a pair which proved to be an old 

 " cock and hen flustered up directly in front of A., and were 

 " neatly disposed of, and within a few seconds another three 

 "birds got up one after another from amongst which A. and 

 " I each managed to bowl over one and miss another. A good 

 " long tramp followed this with nothing to show except a 

 " Pigeon which I got as it flew overhead. It was fast getting 

 " hot, for even at 7,000 feet and more it can get very hot 

 "tramping a difticult hillside, so we called a halt and had hmch 

 "and a pipe, whilst we rested for an hour or so. Shortly after 

 " resuming we got into a very pretty bit of country ; the ravine 

 " through which we were working widened out into an open 

 " hollow nearly 100 yards across in which the scattered oak- 

 " trees grew amongst dense bracken in a way which reminded 

 "usver^^ much of an oak copse on some of the Welsh Hills. 

 " Evidently we were both taken up too much with the pic- 

 " turesque side of nature, for when two birds got up within easy 

 " shot of me, I managed to miss both, whilst two shots fired by 

 " A. in an attempt to wipe nx^ eye were no more effective. 



" From this ravine Jowala took us to a wide natural liollow 

 " between three peaks, which shut it in on three sides, the 



