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the utmost. However, we accounted for 

 eleven of them and twenty-seven rabbits, 

 but we only got nine pheasants. We 

 finished our most enjoyable day by walking 

 across the Park in line, and in this way 

 added three more pheasants and sixteen 

 rabbits to the bag. I do not remember 

 a more charming day in every respect. The 

 weather was simply perfect, the men cheery, 

 good fellows and thorough sportsmen, and 

 the whole natural surroundings most beautiful. 

 Our grand total was two hundred and thirty- 

 one pheasants, three woodcock, fifty rabbits, 

 and eleven wood-pigeons or a total bag of 

 two hundred and ninety-one head. 



B and I had a very pleasant drive 



home that night, and as is the usual custom 

 of the shooting man, we compared notes, and 

 in our minds' eye shot a good many of our 

 birds over again. 



