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This trip over, there ensued various days at West 

 Grinstead Park ; at Coolhurst, near Horsham, with 

 Alwyne Scrase-Dickens ; at Knepp Castle with Sir 

 Raymond Burrell ; at Shermanbury, Hall Bam and 

 Laughton. At Knepp there are at times large 

 quantities of snipe congregated together at each end 

 of the long sheet of water running through the park. 

 The only way of getting at them is to drive them, 

 but they often rise too high before coming over the 

 guns, while at all times they are difficult to shoot, as, 

 when they fly in wisps, they swerve in all directions 

 the moment they see the shooter, and for these reasons 

 the list of slain was seldom in proportion to the 

 number of cartridges expended, fifteen snipe and two 

 teal being the best recorded result of the two drives. 



On the 7th of January, 1895, a long spell of frost 



set in, which lasted for two months, and during this 



period, in company with Captain Robert Sandeman, 



various excursions to Lewes Marshes were made. 



Amongst other things we killed was a purple sandpiper, 



a woodcock off a grass field, and a white-fronted goose, 



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