1% KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



dam let it ooze out, that his friend and his family 

 were on a visit to his place, to stay over Sun- 

 day." 



"Then," said I, " he's had, confound him, 

 and I shall knock down his snipe with all the 

 greater satisfaction." 



" He must live well inland," remarked T., 

 carefully putting up the portrait, " I never saw 

 him before ; and I'll wager now the birds lie in 

 some tussocky meadow, or reedy marsh, along 

 the bank of a creek." 



" Or in a wet stubble-field, most likely," 

 said I. 



"True," said he. "But send out the dogs, 

 let us kill partridges to-day and snipe to-morrow; 

 though how any sportsmen can compare the two 

 kinds of shooting, rather puzzles me to imagine." 



In a few moments the dogs pointed in a buck- 

 wheat field, oil the edge of a corn stubble, and 

 after obtaining a double shot apiece, we fol- 

 lowed them into an orchard, where T. shot a 

 cock bird out of the low crotch of an apple tree. 

 They then pitched into a hedge along the steep 

 bank of a run, with a low, swampy meadow on 

 the further side. Here we killed them singly at 

 leisure, until we had pretty well thinned the 

 covey. 



