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Thirty brace of grouse was the average daily amount 

 bagged during his annual visit to Mowddy — or, 

 Motdhy, as it is pronounced — where he had com- 

 fortable accommodation for himself and three or 

 four friends. The right of free warren likewise 

 gave him liberty over his neighbour's property, to a 

 certain extent, and Mowddy itself is one of the few 

 manors to be found in North Wales. The fishine 

 here is likewise of the first description, and the 

 mountain scenery not to be surpassed in the Prin- 

 cipality. But alas ! although the mountains will 

 stand fast till time shall be no more, this ancient 

 patrimony has passed into other hands. 



But to return for a moment to Halston, and the 

 feats of the trigger of the late owner of it and his 

 friends. Amongst them, the following may not very 

 easily be exceeded. His brother-in-law, Mr. Walter 

 Giffard, of Chillington, Staffordshire, afterwards 

 Master of the Albrighton fox-hounds, and himself^ 

 took the field at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of a 

 short and dirty winter's day, and between that hour 

 and the dinner-hour they bagged 600 head of game 

 from their own guns ! To decide a match of loo- 

 guineas a side, he and Mr. Giffard, on another of the 

 " short days before Christmas," killed 430 head 



