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Montagu, Colonel Legh, Ainslie Walker, and Humphry 

 Willyams ; and in the following six days we got 770 

 head, of which 718 were pheasants and 12 woodcock. 



1892. 



On the 23rd March I was again the guest of 

 Charles Baily at Aberlour, when, during the fishing of 

 the Wester Elchies water of the Spey till the 19th 

 April, he became a convert to the use of the natural 

 minnow. With that lure we took 32 salmon and 117 

 kelts — duly returned uninjured ; honours fairly divided ; 

 and, though the water was in good order for the fly, 

 no other two fishers on the river made nearly such a 

 score in the same period. 



Balls Park again on the 1st of September, where 



I stayed nearly the whole month ; Fred Wingfield, 



Charles Wodehouse, Harold Finch Hatton, Charles 



Greville, Colonel Daniel, and Jack Fryer appearing 



alternately on the scene, for my host did not shoot 



more than four guns a day. It was a very fine, hot 



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