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language than you do, I must own I could not have 

 hand-lined those two trout like you did." 



My next sport was again at Balls Park, where, on the 

 11th of November, ten of us got 600 pheasants, with a 

 total bag of 748 head. Next, on the 2nd of December, 

 Carnanton's hospitable roof sheltered me once more, Sir 

 Philip Egerton, Sir George Prescott, Colonel Legh, and 

 Humphry Willyams making up the party. In the three 

 days following we put into the larder 514 pheasants, 

 11 woodcocks, 2 partridges, 17 hares, and 24 rabbits; 

 and during one of these days Brydges Willyams shot a 

 hen -pheasant with nearly the full dress plumage of the 

 cock-bird. On the fourth day the party broke up, 

 owing to a severe attack of gout having laid our good 

 host by the heels. I was, however, kindly pressed to 

 stay on to try the marsh with his nephew Humphrey, 

 and in the next five days we two managed to put 

 together the pretty bag of 3 duck, 3 widgeon, 36 teal, 

 89 snipe, 31 pheasants, 59 partridges, 2 hares, and 2 

 rabbits. 



This marsh has quite an historical interest, for during 



