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CHAPTER VII. 



1888. 



The 1 2th of August, this year, saw me the guest of Frank 

 Lawson at Huntly Lodge, Aboyne, Hal Phillips and Cecil 

 Block making up the four guns. The twelfth was windy, 

 cold, and showery. Phillips and Block shot together, 

 while Lawson and I worked another beat. Honours were 

 nearly divided, with a bag of 200 grouse, 4 hares, and 

 a duck. In the eight days at Huntly Lodge we got 

 738 grouse, 46 hares, 4 woodcock, 59 rabbits, and 2 ducks, 

 while on the off days I took 6 salmon, and Block 2 others. 

 The year following disease visited these shootings so 

 severely that even up to the present day they do not 

 appear to have recovered from the attack. 



Following this came my usual stay at Balls Park, 

 where they were still making hay on the 13th of 



