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hours of daylight lost a deal of time by his dogs 

 bothering with hares and pheasants going out to 

 feed, and his last two shots were a cock and hen 

 pheasant. 



None of us had the least doubt nor, after 

 the event, had Lord Kennedy himself that he 

 would have killed over one hundred brace had he 

 shot over our old dogs and gone where our game- 

 keepers advised. I remember being told that 

 Coke had his birds driven into turnips, and shot 

 over an old pointer 'as slow as a man' both 

 days. 



Wigtownshire beaten by Norfolk, for two days, 

 was by no means a matter of course in those days. 



On a neighbouring estate Lord Garlics backed 

 himself to shoot fifty brace in one day the year 

 before. No preparation no driving of birds. 

 Despite a bad start through a wet and stormy 

 morning, when the wind fell and the sun came out 

 he made such good use of his time that he stopped 

 at three o'clock, having killed some fifty-six brace, 

 after offering to double his bet that he would 

 shoot eighty brace; but the ease with which it 

 might be done was so evident that no one would 

 take it. 



I have little doubt that if Lord Garlics had 

 undertaken our match instead of Lord Kennedy 

 we should have won; not that Lord G. was 

 the better shot of the two, but he would have 

 taken advice and kept his temper better. 



Alas that Galloway should have fallen 



