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books of Chantilly, home of the great 

 family of Conde', near Paris, form a 

 wonderful record of sport. In the sum- 

 mary it is duly entered that between the 

 years 1747 and 1778 S.A.R. M. le Prince 

 de Cond killed 65,524 head ; while 

 a tragic figure in history is brought to 

 mind by the touching little footnote 

 which adds with scrupulous accuracy 

 "that the nine pieces of game killed by 

 the late Prince's grandson, the Due 

 D'Enghien, were all rabbits." 



The best day at Chantilly seems to 

 have been the 7th of October 1785, 

 when the two Princes de Conde, the 

 Prince Conti, and twelve other guns 

 killed 2580 partridges and 1500 hares. 

 In thirty years, 1748-79, the game-books 

 show a total of 117,574 grey partridges 

 and 12,426 redlegs. 



Against such totals as these our best 

 records in these islands must pale. 



Not till a hundred years later can we 

 produce any results of organized shooting 

 which will bear comparison at all. In 



