112 LORD LILFORD 



a large number of non-venomous snakes on 

 deposit. ... I suppose Irby has got back to his 

 forest, where he can shoot at large.' 



From Lady Lilford to Dr. Gunther. 



1 Lilford : October 24, 1876. 



' My dear Dr. Gunther, Lilford thanks you 

 for your letter of the 21st, but he is quite unable 

 to answer it, being still so ill. I have simply 

 given orders that all the snakes are to be sent 

 to Mr. Bartlett, and you will know best what to 

 do about them.' 



From Lord Lilford to the same. 



'Lilford : December 11, 1876. 



1 1 have had a long and severe attack from 

 which I am, I hope, at last, surely but very 

 slowly recovering ; but I cannot walk, and am 

 confined to two rooms upstairs. The worst of 

 it is that the fingers of my right hand are so 

 twisted and crumpled up that I could not hold 

 a gun, much less pull a trigger. Paul Mollem 

 told me the other day that he saw four birds 

 which "should be waxwings." We have had 

 great floods, and some time ago there were a 



