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Mr. Collycr, Mr. Stanhope says : ' Perhaps you would 

 like to have my recollections of the day. Chantrcy was 

 placed in the gravel-pit that you will remember just 

 under the Hall. I was standing next to him, but hid 

 from him by the bank formed by the pit. Knowing 

 how keen a sportsman he was, I was amazed at seeing 

 him running up to me without his gun, just at the 

 moment when the hares were passing us in all 

 directions ; but when I saw him waving his Peruvian 

 hat over his head, and distinguished his joyous 

 countenance, I knew that all was right. " Two COCKS 

 AT ONE SHOT ! " burst from him, and announced to 

 me the feat that he had performed.' 



This triumph was, as may be imagined, hailed by 

 the assembled sportsmen with wonder and applause : 

 and on its announcement, Mr. Coke, himself an 

 enthusiastic lover of the chase in all its forms, 

 marshalled the whole party, ' guns,' keepers, and 

 beaters, in line ; he then made Chantrey pass along 

 the ranks ; and, as he passed, each individual in 

 succession uncovered and made a formal obeisance 

 to the Hero of the Day. 



The difficulty of Chantrey's exploit seems to increase 

 when it is known that he had the use of only one eye, 

 which was the left one. ' All of a sudden,' says a recent 

 writer, ' on some subject connected with blindness being 

 glanced at, he [Chantrey] turned to me a pair of very 

 agreeable deep-grey eyes, and said, " Do you know, sir, 

 I was born, it is supposed, blind of one eye, and it was 

 never discovered till I was ten years old ? . . . Now, can 

 you," he said, turning a somewhat handsome countenance 



