144 LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



September, on account of the very wet season ; and 

 then, on October 13th, I was again the guest of Frank 

 Lawson at Langley Park, near Norwich, Sir Philip 

 Egerton and Jack Bloxam making up the four. The 

 three following days gave us 226 head, chiefly par- 

 tridges. 



On October 17th I had two days at Tillingbourne, 

 meeting there Colonel Ellison, Augustus Chetwode, Lewis 

 Coward, and F. G. Davidson, when we got 283 pheasants 

 and some " odds and ends." Then, on the 23rd, 24th 

 and 25th, came three sporting days at Charlecote, the first 

 in particular being a good one, for, with our host, his 

 brother Berkeley, Christopher Tower, and Frank Dugdale, 

 we killed, walking in line, 36 partridges, 49 hares, 177 

 rabbits, and 7 various. 



As this day came to an end, and as we turned on to 

 the road for home, we met Sir Charles Mordaunt's stud 

 groom coming back from Warwick, and as both Berkeley 

 Lucy and I had backed Veracity for a small sum for the 

 Cambridgeshire, we cried after him to know if he had 

 heard the name of the winner. ** Frosty, sir," came the 



