210 LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



Hunte Hobson, T. and H. Sowerby, and T. Pilkington. 

 The four days produced 1695 head, 1208 being 

 pheasants ; also there were 250 hares, a very unusual 

 thing to come across now-a-days, and only to be 

 explained by the fact that the Colonel and his tenants 

 are the best of friends. The brothers Sowerby are well 

 known as two first-class shots, and it was a pretty 

 sight to see them, when standing next each other at 

 a small partridge drive, drop eight birds with as many 

 cartridges out of two coveys that passed between them. 

 On the 14th I killed two pheasants with one barrel, 

 which I have never seen done either before or since. 

 They were the only two birds on the wing, and, 

 flushed a long way off, they were coming very high in 

 the air. I pulled as the cock cleared the trees, when 

 both — the other a hen, apparently some ten yards 

 behind the first bird — collapsed and fell quite dead. 

 Colonel Legh's breed of wavy-coated retrievers and 

 black field spaniels are too well known to require any 

 praise, and "Miner II." and ** Crackle," the spaniel, are 

 just as good as dogs can be. 



