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SPORT IN EUROPE 



the house of Graciosa are much esteemed. It is very common 

 there in one clay's coursing to kill fifteen or twenty hares. 



\1IKK (JUAIL 



Quail. 



In the Lezirias do Tejo and Sado, and in the country near 

 Estarreja, large quantities of quail {codorniz) are shot 

 at the end of xApril and the month of May; and again, 

 in the months of August and September a good gun can bag in one 

 day from eighty to a hundred quail. 



His Majesty the King shoots the quail so quickly that he kills 

 them at a short distance from the muzzle of the dog that points 

 them. My friend D. Fernando Manoel Atalaya, a great sportsman, 

 much devoted to shooting quail, always waits a moment when a cock 

 and hen rise until they cross, and then fires and kills them with one 



