LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 105 



The 1st of September found me again at Balls Park, 

 and after the usual happy time there, the 12th saw me 

 arriving at Invermark by Brechin, in Forfarshire, on a 

 visit to the late Sir Robert Bateson Harvey; his two 

 sons, Grenville and Charles, with Thomas Kennard, 

 making up the party. In the seven days I had here 

 we put into the larder 11 stags, 291 grouse, 7 black- 

 cocks, 5 partridges, 15 hares, and 5 rabbits; while of the 

 grouse 157 were got in a day's driving on the 20th. On 

 the 22nd it was my turn to miss the forest, and when 

 I returned home in the evening with twenty-two brace 

 of grouse, I found the stalkers had been in good luck, 

 for Grenville and Charles Harvey and Kennard had each 

 got two stags. 



Going south once more, I had further pleasant days 

 at Hall Barn and Burnham Beeches, till, on the 20th, 

 I found myself the guest of Charles Eley at Stody 

 Lodge, Melton Constable, where in four days five of 

 us got 279 partridges, 44 pheasants, and 16 various. 

 Then, in November, I was again Mr. Eley's guest for 

 a couple of days' partridge driving at East Bergholt, 



