120 LEAVES FKOM A GAME BOOK. 



whom could hold pretty straight, and we got 220 

 partridges, 20 pheasants, 24 hares, with some rabbits — 

 a good bag considering 600 brace of birds had already 

 been taken off the ground. 



The first of December found me staying with 

 Brydges Willyams at his beautiful place, Camanton, 

 near St. Columb, in Cornwall. His brother Arthur, 

 Sir George Prescott, and Colonel Villiers Bagot com- 

 pleted the party, who in the three following days 

 bagged 459 head, chiefly pheasants. The Carnanton 

 pheasants do not rise exactly at one's toes, for the 

 covers are nearly all hanging ones, and as the guns 

 are placed in the valleys, many birds pass over the 

 heads of the shooters actually out of reach, so that 

 the killing of 400 pheasants here is fully equal to the 

 sport afforded by double that quantity of birds sent 

 to the guns without due judgment from flat covers. 

 On the 4th our party broke up, I staying on for a 

 few days to try the marsh belonging to Lord Falmouth, 

 but let for many years past to my host. On the 

 first day I took off* it 5 wild ducks, 26 teal, and 



