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R. T. Ellison, and Captain Levita. It snowed hard 

 each of these days, and the bag came to but 358 

 head, which in better weather would have been doubled. 

 This frost, commencing on the 16th of December, 

 lasted until the end of the shooting season, and as in 

 most of the southern counties there were heavy snow 

 storms, it practically put an end to gunning operations. 

 During this frosty period Sir George Pigot and I made 

 many excursions from Brighton to Shoreham and Lewes 

 Marshes, where between us we made the odd bag of one 

 white-fronted goose, one bittern, three wild ducks, six 

 snipe, and a hen smew. Pigot had as good a chance of 

 a right and left at a company of white-fronted geese as 

 could be desired, for in that winter Lewes Marsh was full 

 of geese of all sorts, but, as there was no cover more 

 substantial than a gate post, they were unapproachable 

 by stalking, and the only way to get a shot was to 

 find them with the spy-glass, and that done, we headed 

 them by making a long detour, and crawled up to gate 

 posts wide from each other, behind which we squatted ; 

 then as soon as our driver had watched us into 



