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well hauled over the coals. Notwithstanding all the shots 

 we heard fired, their bag was but three birds ; and Paget's 

 man had studied his master's interests by using Lucy's 

 gun and cartridges, and Lucy's man had done the same 

 by his master and used mine. Neither, however, got " the 

 sack," for they were both exceptionally good servants, 

 and we afterwards had many a laugh in recalling the 

 blank looks of astonishment depicted on the faces of the 

 two shooters when we surprised them, as we were each 

 supposed to be at least ten miles distant. 



In the month of November I had two nice days 

 at Hall Barn, which gave a total of 592 head, chiefly 

 pheasants, to seven guns each day. Sir Robert Harvey, 

 Sir Roger Palmer, Brydges Willyams, Coleman of 

 Stoke Park, Archie Wortley, Willie Lawson, and Ben 

 Way joining us on either one or the other of these 

 days. 



On the first day (the 11th November), Archie Wortley 

 gave us a display which only a well-trained sportsman 

 would have recognised as the right thing to do. During 

 the course of the day, while shooting Dipple Wood, we 



