192 LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



As usual, on the 1st September I revisited Balls 

 Park, Charles Wodehouse, Harold Finch Hatton, and 

 Fred Wingfield making up the shooters, when in 

 twelve days we got exactly 500 head, of which 468 

 were partridges. 



The 30th of September saw me the guest of Frank 

 Lawson at one of the most sporting places in Scotland, 

 viz., Pitfour by Mintlaw, in Aberdeenshire. Here I also 

 found Cecil Block, A. K. Foster, Reggie Turner, and 

 Edward Hulse. This property is upwards of 22,000 acres 

 in extent, with a very pretty house placed in a large 

 park, in which there is a fine lake. In the nine days 

 I had there we killed, walking in line, 615 partridges, 

 73 pheasants, 8 grouse, 8 duck, 5 snipe, 196 hares, 

 569 rabbits, and 12 various. Hulse left us on the 

 9th of September, his place being taken by Bernard 

 Posno, who unluckily, the first day he was out, jumped 

 short at a very soft ditch, and went souse into some 

 most odoriferous refuse right up to his armpits, a pro- 

 ceeding which reduced him to going off to the nearest 

 farmhouse to borrow some clean clothes, in which he sat 



