LEAVES FEOM A GAME BOOK. 47 



CHAPTER III. 



During the seasons of 1878 and 1879 I did but little 

 shooting, and it was not until the 14th September, 

 1880, that I again found myself hard at it. On that date 

 I was the guest at Mildenhall, in Suffolk, in company 

 with Captain J. Peareth, of my old friend Harry Rae 

 Reid, who entertained us right well at the village inn. 

 On the 15 th we three, accompanied by Mr. Gittus, Sir 

 John Rae Reid's tenant, of Worlington, shot over that 

 property on a very wet day, getting eighty - seven 

 partridges and a snipe. Hares we did not shoot, as Mr. 

 Gittus asked us to leave them for coursing, a sport of 

 which he was an ardent follower, and I well recollect 

 how little heed any of us paid to a somewhat insignificant- 

 looking brindled greyhound lady, to whose training her 

 master devoted constant attention. This animal was a 

 relation of the celebrated " Coomassie," who, a few years 



