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the arrival of Stanley Hicks and Charles Farmer ; 

 but driven in by a deluge directly after lunch, 

 the bag was but seventy-one partridges. This total of 

 511 birds were killed entirely by hard work, for we 

 " walked in " the stubbles for ourselves, and as they were 

 numerous and large, with root fields comparatively 

 scarce, we all had plenty of exercise. 



My next visit this year was to an old schoolfellow, 

 the late Captain Harry Dacres Evans, R.H.A., who had 

 rented the house and shootings of Glassaugh, near Portsoy, 

 in Banffshire, from Mr. Grant Duff, of Fetteresso. Poor 

 Harry, like many other good fellows, was not super- 

 abundantly endowed with the sinews of war, so on 

 retiring from the Service — through the loss of a foot — 

 he wisely enough preferred the comforts of this well- 

 built roomy country house, with its excellent furniture, 

 together with some 5000 acres of low ground shooting, 

 and all for £100 a year, to the doubtful pleasures of 

 a villa at a like rental at Norwood or Brighton, or 

 in "the jungle," as he used to call the suburbs of 

 London. 



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