no LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



with or against a strong wind, and on this particular 

 day I should say the shooters, as a body, were above 

 the average. 



On the 18th Gladstone killed his first stag, stalking 

 with John Mitchell on the South Beat of the forest, while 

 on the same day I got 105 bunnies, ferreting the rocks 

 on the side of Loch Lee. On starting for my trip, Sir 

 Robert asked me if I would use some lightly loaded 

 cartridges he kept expressly for this rabbit shooting. 

 I think he said they held 36 grains of E.G. and three- 

 quarters of an ounce of No. 5. At first I was somewhat 

 loath to discard my own cartridges of Schultz — 42 grains 

 1 oz. No. 5, " Field Loading " — but on hearing that the 

 bunnies had perforce to be shot at somewhat close 

 quarters, on account of their holes being so numerous 

 and so near together, I at once assented. The first 

 shot I fired gave me an astonishingly hard blow on 

 the cheek and shoulder, and nearly deafened me, so 

 much so that I immediately told the keeper I would 

 use no more of these cartridges, and that he must 

 return to the house and get me some of my own. 



