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me something to think about for many a long 

 day afterwards. Finally, I arrived at the 

 conclusion that No. 7 was the best sized shot 

 for general use, and for all game bar grouse 

 and black game, and for years I have seldom 

 used anything but No. 7 till late in the season, 

 and then I prefer No. 6. This beat yielded 

 eighty-eight pheasants. 



After lunch we shot a wood called " The 

 Nursery," a boundary of the Park. In 

 reality, it was a series of small coverts, with 

 plenty of undergrowth and some magnificent 

 beech and oak trees. Though we did not 

 get very many pheasants, we had some rare 

 good fun with the rabbits and wood-pigeons, 

 and these very wide-awake birds took an 

 amazing amount of shooting. The way they 

 would spot a gun, and in one second arrest 

 their course and dash away in a totally 

 different direction, was disconcerting to a 

 degree, and tested our shooting powers to 



