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So long ago as the year 1753, the 

 Emperor of Austria and twenty -two other 

 guns, shooting in Bohemia, killed 47,950 

 head in twenty days, of which 19,545 

 were partridges, while at Liechtenstein in 

 Saxony it is duly recorded in the sporting 

 magazines of the day though it is almost 

 too much to ask any one to believe it 

 that in October 1797, 39,000 head of 

 game were killed in fourteen hours' shoot- 

 ing, chiefly hares and partridges. History 

 records neither the number nor the names 

 of the guns who took part in this in- 

 credible performance. 



There is an early German record of 

 1201 partridges killed in two days' shoot- 

 ing, in all 3258 head besides a variety of 

 small game, the date 1788, and a special 

 note to the effect that all the birds were 

 shot on the wing. About the same time 

 the King of Naples and Sir William 

 Hamilton are credited with a bag of 320 

 brace, locality unspecified, though pre- 

 sumably in the royal preserves. 



In France, the carefully kept game- 



