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parish, his Hampshire home, and punted 

 after the geese on the Solent, for the first 

 half of the past century. The Colonel 

 wanted no hecatombs of slain to make 

 him a day's sport ; he would cheerfully 

 muster all hands on the report of a single 

 pheasant in his woods, spend the whole 

 day in pouring rain manoeuvring after 

 him, and come home in the evening to 

 enter in his diary "Never had a more 

 successful day in my life ; outwitted a 

 magnificent old cock-pheasant." 



To those who have no first - hand 

 acquaintance with the Colonel, we would 

 effect an introduction by an extract from 

 the said diary. 



1816. Sept. 16th. Never in my life had such a 

 satisfactory day's shooting. Although the birds 

 were rather wild than otherwise for the time of 

 year, and the number of coveys the Longparish 

 fields contained were by no means considerable, 

 yet I had the good fortune to bag 36 partridges 

 and 1 hare with literally never missing a single 

 shot and without losing one bird. I had 8 

 doublets and bagged both my birds every time, 

 and having once killed 2 at one shot with my 

 first barrel, I made 37 head of game in 36 shots. 



