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various other hawks : a wonderful total ! The grouse 

 bags in Langwell at that time ranged from nine to 

 eighteen brace a day to two guns. The whole estate 

 was under sheep, while few deer frequented it, and 

 but some half-dozen, hinds included, were got each 

 season. In 1857 the late Duke of Portland bought 

 the property and at once began to afforest it. In 

 1859 the game bag for the season was four red deer, 

 two roe, sixty-nine hares, one hundred and eighty- 

 eight rabbits, seventy grouse, and seventeen part- 

 ridges, while in the two following years it was much 

 about the same. From 1868 to 1875 Viscount 

 Galway and the Hon. G. Monckton shot Langwell. 

 In 1868, nine years after being cleared, Lord Galway 

 had twenty-four stags and Mr. Monckton twenty-six, 

 or, fifty between them ; but as in those days Langwell 

 did not possess a weighing machine, no mention 

 can be made of weights. In 187 1 Lord Galway 

 got forty-two stags and Mr. Monckton fifty-one ; 

 the ninety-three averaged 14 stone 5 lbs., with heart 

 and liver included, and the best twenty beasts gave a 



