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proportion of those that got up in shot. When 

 we reached the end, or rather side of the 

 bog nearest home, and where we had decided 

 to stop shooting, we told Christy to turn out 

 the bag, and found we had twenty-three 

 and a half couple of snipe of which one 

 and a half couple were jacks and four teal. 

 This was to us, at any rate a very satisfactory 

 day, and as the rain was coming down "hard 

 all " we steered for home. In overhauling 

 my old diaries, I find my brother and I killed 

 twenty-seven couple of snipe on another 

 occasion in the west of Ireland, but my 

 readers must please understand that these 

 two we always considered exceptionally good 

 days ; in fact, we thought anything over ten 

 couple of snipe in a day was worth recording. 



