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reach home with a bag far smaller than a real, 

 hard-working one, who sets about it with deter- 

 mination and good-will, even although this last 

 may not have flushed half the number of wood- 

 cocks. 



Thus terminates a day's sport in Albania, than 

 which a more exciting, soul-stirring sport does 

 not exist. I dehght in a fox hunt, I have always 

 been from my youth a zealous and determined 

 sportsman, but I shall ever look back with the 

 greatest pleasure to the magnificent sport I had 

 the good fortune to enjoy during five seasons, 

 whilst residing at Corfu. The wildness of the 

 country, an unlimited territory, over which one 

 can range free from the restraint of not being 

 able to enter this or that enticing cover, because 

 it belongs to Lord A., or to Mr. B., the never- 

 ending rapid succession of events, whether of 

 killing larger game, such as boar and deer, falling 

 in with a larger flight of woodcocks than usual, 

 or an adventure with the Albanians, all combine 

 together to produce a kind of charm in the sport- 

 ing in this country, which none but a first-rate 

 Nimrod can imagine, and no language can de- 

 scribe. 



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