40 WANDERINGS AND MEMORIES 



advancing straight towards me — a perfectly easy 

 shot. Swinging the gun forward, I pressed the 

 trigger of the left barrel. There was no answering 

 discharge, for the spring of the lock had broken 

 — a piece of bad luck, but perhaps fortunate for 

 the Woodcock. 



In the sporting papers one often sees accounts 

 of unusual right and left shots, so I give the fol- 

 lowing curious doubles which have fallen to my 

 gun during the past thirty years — 



1884. Jan. 10th. Rock Pigeon and Golden Eagle. 



(The only one I ever shot, a young bird 

 on migration.) 



1885. A Velvet Scoter and an Eider. 

 1885. Aug. 9th. A Roebuck and a Snipe. 



1885. Sept. 6th. A Partridge and a Blackcock. 



1886. Jan. 4th. Glaucus Gull and Iceland Gull. 

 1886. Sept. 28th. Double right and left at 



Blackcocks. 

 1886. Dec. 6th. Golden Eye and Red-breasted 



Merganser. 

 1888. Oct. 20th. Two cock Capercailzie. 



1888. Dec. 5th. Wigeon and Brent Goose. 



1889. Nov. 1st. Capercailzie and Woodcock. 



1889. Nov. 2nd. Wood-pigeon and Woodcock. 



1890. Oct. 23rd. Hare and Golden Plover. 

 1890. Oct. 27th. Pheasant and Wild Duck. 

 1915. Sept. 3rd. Rough-legged Buzzard and Blue 



Hare. 

 1915. Sept. 10th. Raven and Snipe. 



At Murthly in December 1888 I shot seven Teal 

 with two barrels, and at Loch Leven on December 



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