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But even more remarkable, perhaps, have been Lord 

 Leicester's achievements in snipe-shooting. In a single 

 day he has killed to his own gun eighty couple of snipe ! 

 And on the day following that prodigious bag he and 

 his keeper shot 78 couple. 



I have already referred to the great pheasant-shoots 

 at Holkham, where Lord Leicester offers superb sport to 

 his guests, amongst whom are always some of the finest 

 shots in England ; and a sportsman can have no higher 

 tribute to his skill than to be named for the " outer ring " 

 at Holkham, to stop those " rocketers " which tax all the 

 quickness of hand and eye of even the deadliest shooters. 



There is not in the United Kingdom a spot on which 

 I should feel more disposed to bestow the title of " The 

 Sportsman's Paradise " than Holkham, and there is no 

 sportsman better fitted to be the owner of such a 

 " Paradise " than Thomas William Coke, second Earl 

 of Leicester. 



