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their liberty just before dusk is a better one than 

 that, so often advised, of turning them out in darkness. 

 The great points are to get the wind blowing direct 

 to the spot choseii for them to fly to, and then to 

 give the birds little or no chance of seeing any other 

 place to make for. 



Next, in the month of December, came a lot of 

 small days — none the less sporting on that account — 

 with Arthur Whitaker at West Grinstead Park, at 

 Shermanbury Grange with Forrester Britten, at Skeynes 

 Hill with Charles Baily, and at Laughton, near Lewes, 

 with Sir James Duke. Here, on the last day but one 

 of this shooting season, in company with my host. 

 Colonel Dudley Sampson, Alfred Broadwood, and J. 

 Baxendale, we got nineteen brace of driven birds in 

 the highest wind I ever shot in. 



1894. 



The 1st of September found me in the old Hertford- 

 shire quarters, where in two days we got 410 partridges, 

 14 hares, 18 ducks, 16 rabbits, and 5 various ; but 



