50 LEAVES FEOM A GAME BOOK. 



Arriving at Glassaugh on the 27tli of September, I 

 had eighteen days of sport, on five of which Colonel 

 Ainsworth gave me his aid ; the bag for that time 

 counting 612 head, or an average of 34 head each day — 

 pretty good sport for the rental. In this total was included 

 215 partridges, with 82 pheasants, the remainder being 

 made up of hares, snipe, and every other sort of game, 

 including even 5 grouse. My friend kept but one keeper 

 and one gardener, who also looked after a pony and trap. 

 The sale of the rabbits with a little game paid the keeper's 

 wages, together with the hire of a gillie for three months 

 of the shooting season ; the sale of the garden produce 

 plus the absence of greengrocer's bills also cleared the 

 gardener's wages ; so here was my friend with a fairly 

 large, most comfortably furnished house and some 5000 

 acres of shooting, all for actually £100 a year, and I would 

 suggest to others not overburdened with riches that 

 similar places offer a far more enjoyable, healthy life than 

 a home in the crowded jerry-built villas of the London 

 suburbs. It is the wives and daughters who usually bar 

 the way to such a life, for unless they can find happiness 



