72 LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



S. H. Phillips, on a " dark and windy day," we took on 

 November 24tli, out of Burtley and Great Bower Woods, 

 198 pheasants, 13 hares, 53 rabbits, and 5 pigeons, or 

 279 head. During this day Lawson shot a weasel with 

 a fresh-killed mouse in its mouth, so that it seems even 

 this most inveterate of poachers likes a change of diet, 

 and can at times make himself positively useful. 



On nearly the last day of this shooting season — viz., 

 the 28th January, 1882 — I had a most sporting day with 

 my old friend and brother officer, Captain F. D. Webb — 

 *' The Reefer " of his intimates — when, in company with 

 his brother, Godfrey Webb, we made on their property, 

 lying round Milford House, Godalming, a bag containing 

 eight sorts of game, a matter not often or easily accom- 

 plished so near London. We also saw black-game, which 

 we of course did not try to shoot ; likewise great lots of 

 duck, of which we bagged six, while snipe, pheasant, 

 partridge, teal, widgeon, hare, and rabbit made up the 

 eight varieties. 



