WILD SPORT IN BRITTANY. 43 



merits were fulfilled ; I spoke Breton, and half-ruined myself by 

 my expenditure in French " caporal." 



Our further sport in M. Gourdin's plantations is scarcely worth 

 recording ; suffice it to say, Keryfan and myself, when the day's 

 bag was counted, had killed nearly three times as many wood- 

 cocks as Kergoorlas and St. Prix; both of whom, although 

 shooting equally well, if not better than ourselves in the open, 

 never attempted to enter a close cover nor follow their dogs 

 throughout the day. 



