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fact that the hundred brace was reached 

 was an unexpected addition to the general 

 pleasure of the day, which lay in the 

 legitimate sport of seeing dogs work and 

 fair shooting. Had the total been only 

 ninety brace, A would probably have 

 enjoyed himself quite as much, whereas 

 in the case of B, a few birds less in the 

 bag, and the day, from his point of view, 

 would have been a failure. 



So we may lightly pass over such feats 

 as one gun killing 500 brace of grouse in 

 a single day, or another killing nearly 200 

 birds in twenty minutes, as tending to rouse 

 a spirit of emulation which we hold to be 

 at variance with the true interests of sport. 



There are individual records, too, which 

 we would be loth to part with : we like to 

 read how that fine old sportsman, Captain 

 Horatio Ross, killed 83 grouse in 83 shots, 

 shooting over dogs on the 12th August 

 1892, the same being his 69th shooting 

 season. Such a feat as this would not 

 seem to invite competition, for few old 

 gentlemen of eighty are likely to try 



