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22 snipe, a total which will make anyone keen at 

 marsh work long for a similar chance. 



On quitting Cornwall, there came more days at Hall 

 Barn, Balls Park, and Netherfield, till on the 25th of 

 January I went to Charlecote Park to finish up the 

 season with Spencer Lucy. On the 27th we went 

 over to Ragley Hall to shoot with Lord Hertford, 

 and on a very wet day in a very big wood nine of us 

 got 346 head, chiefly rabbits. This day, in addition 

 to being very wet, was also close and still and inclined 

 to fog, and I have never before or since seen such a 

 vivid exposition of the difference in smoke caused by 

 black and nitro powders. At one beat I was placed 

 between two " black men " — to the best of my recol- 

 lection, Col. Drummond Murray and Col. Heywood — 

 and the bunnies coming fast, their combined fire 

 speedily stopped my being able to see, and a short 

 time afterwards they themselves, so dense was the 

 smoke, were obliged to call the " cease fire." 



On the 28th, Spencer Lucy, with his brother 

 Berkeley, Col. Paulet, C. G. Lefroy, and_ myself, killed 



