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the rises from the lower groimd. Caution, there- 

 fore, was to be more particularly used, as tliougli 

 the dip in the ground was considerable, cutting 

 across as a bird flies, the gunners were not very 

 far off each other, and therefore well within 

 danger. 



From my friends having arrived at, to me, a 

 very complimentary opinion, that as a shot (as I 

 trust in all other things) caution was my habitual 

 custom, it chanced that the selection fell on me 

 to take one hill above a hollow^, wdiile Foley, the 

 then lieir-apparent and a young man, took the 

 other, so as to keep him, for that time at least, 

 in an assured place of safety. 



Foley, now the owner of Prestwood, — as I hope 

 in all haj^piness and health, while life lasts, he 

 ever will be, — was attended by a rammer-bearer, 

 one of the first innovations on the original rammer 

 borne beneath the barrels of the gun, in the sliape 

 of a very small boy. 



A pheasant rose directly in front of me, and 

 flew pretty straight away, but inclining to Foley's 

 side the ^^ gully," out of all possibly-to-be-com- 

 puted danger in regard to Avhere Foley stood, and 

 in every way a safe shot for me. I killed the 



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