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should, to insure tolerable success in shooting, have wide 

 rides cut in various parts, equalising the divisions as 

 nearly as the shape of the wood will allow. If the party 

 consists of four or five guns, one or two of them should 

 keep along the ride, to fire at any game crossing the 

 opening, more especially hares and rabbits. If the 

 openings are narrow, then let the best snap shots com- 

 mand the pass. Young sportsmen, from an over-anxiety 

 to get shots, sometimes advance out of the line of 

 shooters ; in doing this there is much risk, and I have 

 known several men who have had their legs well pep- 

 pered, especially if rabbits and hares are numerous in 

 the cover. 



Some years ago, I was shooting with a party at 

 Babraham near Cambridge, the residence of the late 

 Mr. Adeane. The Eev. J. Stanley, uncle to Mr. Adeane, 

 and afterwards Bishop of Norwich, was of the party. It 

 was a battue. We arrived at a thick fir plantation on 

 the side of a steepish hill. The spot where I was to 

 take my station was pointed out to me by the game- 

 keeper : I had been there but a short time, when a shot 

 was fired at a pheasant above me, when my right side 

 received a greater part of the discharge, which fortunately 

 only penetrated through a thick velveteen shooting jacket, 

 as Mr. Stanley, who had fired the shot, was about seventy 

 yards above me. Had he been forty yards nearer, I have 

 little doubt my career would have ended. I instantly 

 called out, not knowing who it was that had fired, that if 

 I received a second salute of that kind, I should return 

 the compliment with two barrels.* Mr. Stanley in- 

 stantly came running much alarmed, to find out whether 



* The late liishop was an excellent and good tempered man, I had met 

 him Lefoi'e at Bagneres de Bigorre in the Pj-renees. 



