242 REMINISCENCES OF A HUNTSMAN. 



Grand total killed by the late LordMahnsbnry, in forty seasons, to Ms oivn 



gun, from 1798 to 1840. 



Black Game ^^ 



Partridges - - " " " ^"''^* 



iiails - 

 Sandrails _ - - - - ^^ 



Pheasants ----- 6,320 

 Woodcocks ^'^^^ 



Snipes 



4,694 



Wild Swans ----- 3 



Wild Geese - - - " ' ^ ^ 



Other fowl ----- 2,756 



Bitterns ----- 10 



Golden Plover . - - - 6 

 Hares - - - - '5,211 



Eabbits ^'•^^^ 



Total - 38,442 



Summary of shots hilled and missed in forty seasons, ending 1840. 



Shots 54,987 



Killed 38,221 



Missed - - - - " 16,766 



Days out ----- 3,645 



Allowing the distance walked at two miles and a 

 half per hour, according to the noble journalist's 

 account, he would have covered a distance of 36,200 

 miles, or very nearly once and a half of the circumfe- 

 rence of the globe; and during that time he was 

 never confined to his bed one day by sickness or 

 accident, — firing away about 750 pounds' weight of 

 powder, and four tons of shot. 



The crowning day of the Heron Court wild-fowl 

 shooting, however, was destined to be deferred till the 

 31st January, 1853, when the present Lords Malms- 

 bury and Anson, accompanied by Mr. George Bentinck, 

 took the beat on the Moors River ; Lord Anson and 

 Mr. Bentinck were posted, and Lord Malrasbury drove 

 the water. It was three hours before he reached the 

 posts of his friends, their firing without stirring a foot, 

 continuous ; and when they compared bags. Lord 



