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a cigar and liquored copiously, we reckoned up thirty-six couple of cock, 

 twenty-seven rabbits, a brace of cranes, and the crow. Not so bad, 

 considering the place. 



The next day a favourable slant of the wind sent us into the bogs after 

 snipe, and we did very fairly ; and the day after we went out and laid a long 

 line for turbot, &c., and capital fun we had, bringing in a boat-load of fish 

 of various kinds, and, having picked out a dozen of the best for our own use, 

 we distributed the rest, as, by the bye, we did the rabbits, among the poor 

 cottagers ; and Misther Michael was a great man on such occasions, 

 dispensing his gifts with immense condescension and patronage. The next 

 day we had another day at the cock, as we did on the day following. As a 

 change in the weather would take them all away suddenly, with very little 

 warning, we made hay while we could, and, being better used to it, we 

 got on better as regards the walking, killing twenty-four and eighteen 

 couple, with a few rabbits, on each day respectively ; and, having had the 

 jolliest week possible, with a hamper of cock each to take home to our 

 friends, we bade The O'C. what he called " a timporary ajew," for he 

 engaged us all to come again next year, but next year never came for The 

 O'C, for he was killed out hunting very soon after. 



A NOTED (long) BILL DI8C0XJNTEB. 



