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mencement of this work. He has not permitted 

 his love of field sports to overwhelm the more im- 

 portant and refined duties and accomplishments of 

 life ; but in his leisure hours he can be a perfect 

 sportsman, and when the crown requires it an able 

 minister. 



The late Lord Malmsbury kept a journal of his 

 sporting life, even to the quantity of powder and shot 

 he used, the things he killed each day, the time he 

 was out, the distance he walked, and the weather, 

 — shooting after the approved fashion of his day, not 

 in battues, but without the stops to the running game 

 now so universally adopted. With Lord Malms- 

 bury 's consent I have extracted from this journal the 

 following information : — 



[from the late lord maxmsbtjry's journal.] 



Grand summary of game and fowl shot on Heron Court manors and 

 shooting beats in thirty-nine seasons^ from 1801 to 1840 inclusive. 



Black Game 



Partridges 



Quails 



Landrails 



Pheasants 



Woodcocks 



Snipes 



Wild Swans 



Wild Geese 



Ducks 



Widgeon 



Teal 



Other fowl 



Bitterns 



Hares 



Rabbits 



Total 



184 



- 9,331 



8 

 118 



- 10,292 



- 1,387 



- 5,375 



11 

 22 



- 2,885 



122 



- 1,371 



389 

 22 



- 9,494 



- 14,990 



- 54,802 



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