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to have remembered there were more Georges in the 

 world than one" — a gracious speech which made me 

 quite happy, and now that it is over, I am rather 

 proud of being able to say that I, formerly an ensign 

 in Her Majesty's 25th and 41st Regiments, have 

 addressed the Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's 

 Forces by his Christian name, and yet live unreproved 

 and unscathed to tell the tale. 



On November 22nd I was again a guest at Combury 

 Park, finding there Colonel Ellison, W. H. Jenkins, 

 H. B. Brookes, Hermon Hodge, Francis Maclean, Q.C., 

 George Faudel-Phillips, George Norris, and General 

 Addington. In the next three days we killed 2313 

 head, of which 1695 were rabbits and 608 were 

 pheasants. 



At the end of this season Wynne gave up Cornbury, 

 and in 1895 he took the Plashett shootings near Lewes, 

 asking me if I would look after them for him, which, as 

 I was living at Brighton, was a most congenial amuse- 

 ment, giving me many opportunities of acquiring a 

 further insight into the gamekeeper's life and of studying 



