1Rev>. Militant arfeer Bantel 129 



Lord Lincoln, General Philips, Captain (afterwards 

 General) Lascelles, Rev. Mr. Lascelles, Mr. Cotton, 

 and Lieut-Colonel Strickland. Here the Game had a 

 complete Triumph over their Adversaries." 



On the subject of " big bags " Parson Daniel held 

 strong views, but he shows by some very interesting 

 statistics that foreigners were in his day far worse sinners 

 in this respect than English sportsmen. At Chantilly, 

 under the regime of the Prince de Cond, who kept 

 an enormous establishment of 500 servants, 500 horses, 

 and 80 couples of sporting dogs, 54,878 head of game 

 were killed in a single season. It is also stated that 

 twelve guns on the Prince Lichtenstein's estate killed in 

 fourteen hours on an October day in 1777 " 39,000 (sic) 

 head of game, chiefly hares and partridges." Of course 

 an " o " too many has slipped in there, but even with 

 that important alteration the figures are remarkable 

 for days of flint-locks and single barrels. 



"In 1801," writes Mr. Daniel, "Mr. Coke, who is 

 perhaps the very best shot in England, killed in five days 

 726 partridges : surely the number of discharges must 

 deafen the operator, putting the destruction out of the 

 question : and Mr. Coke is so expert a marksman that 

 as he inflicts death whenever he pulls the trigger, he 

 should in mercy forbear such terrible examples of his 

 skill." What would our excellent parson have thought 

 of the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, who killed 740 

 partridges to his own gun in a single September 

 day ! I am sure, however, that no sportsman of to-day, 

 however insatiable his lust for slaughter, would be guilty 

 of such revolting barbarity as the butcher, if so gentle a 



9 



