176 LEAVES FEOM A GAME BOOK. 



a souvenir of his visit, a very charming little water- 

 colour drawing of a fine old cock grouse sitting on a 

 rock, with some hinds and a stag in the distance, which 

 is now one of the chief ornaments of my Game Book. 



Returning south, there came some more days at 

 Tillingbourne, Hall Barn, and Charlecote, and on the 

 21st November I arrived again at Balls Park, in company 

 with my brother-in-law. Lord Erskine, the party getting 

 the next day 701 head, chiefly pheasants. 



On the 25 th I was off" to Midhurst, to stay at the 

 hotel there with Frank Lawson, who had rented the 

 late Lord Egmont's pheasant shooting at Cowdray Park 

 for the rest of the season. Kight comfortable quarters 

 were to be found in that hotel, a favourite one to 

 visitors to Goodwood. F. Morrice, Sir John Kelk, 

 John Foster and his son were the party, the bag for 

 the next three days being 839 pheasants, 14 woodcock, 

 9 hares, 45 rabbits. The pheasant shooting here is 

 certainly some of the prettiest in the kingdom, for the 

 scenery is beautiful, and, as many of the covers are 

 on hillsides, the birds came very high ; while Norman, 



