SNIPE SHOOTING IN IRELAND 



How trebly blessed is the man who can 

 procure, nowadays, good snipe shooting 

 without having to seek it in foreign climes, 

 far distant from the land of his birth. When 

 I say "good" I don't mean three or four 

 couple, but a bag of from ten to twenty 

 couple to a single gun. Of course, abroad 

 immense bags of snipe are made, as in India, 

 Burmah, and Ceylon, where one hundred 

 couple to a single gun has on several 

 occasions been recorded. 



Again, in Albania snipe as well as wood- 

 cock used to be very numerous, and I 

 remember my father mentioning that a 

 brother officer of his, a Captain Murray, 

 undertook for a bet to row himself over from 



