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the head keeper, has a perfect knowledge of his business, 

 with a fine staff of assistants and beaters to help him. 



On December 19th and 20th I had other two days at 

 Cowdray, Sir George Prescott, Sir Philip Egerton, Colonel 

 Legh, and Algernon Turner completing the party. Both 

 days were wet and windy, but we got 533 pheasants on 

 the first one, and 183 cocks on the next, with 10 

 woodcocks. Then, in January, 1890, came more days at 

 Cowdray, Colonel Legh, Nicol of Ballogie, and Cecil 

 Block helping ; and, though the season was coming 

 to an end, we got 445 cock pheasants, which made 

 the 4000 birds that Lord Egmont had said could 

 be killed. I am not aware of the total acreage of 

 cover on the Cowdray property ; suffice it to say, 

 there are seventeen days of cover shooting ** first time 

 through," which is not often surpassed. 



The 28th and 29th January found me at Charlecote, 

 where on the 30th and 31st Spencer and Berkeley 

 Lucy, Colonel Paulet, Smith-Eylands, Lord Garrioch, 

 and myself shot with Louis Greville at Warwick Castle. 

 During the first two days at Charlecote we drove 



