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Coolhurst, so it will be seen no time was lost. On the 

 20tli there was also another good day at Billingbear, 

 near Wokingham, with Charles T. D. Crews, where I 

 met Lord Rathmore, Lord George Pratt, Edward 

 Cassell, Alfred Biedermann, and George Herring, the 

 bag for the day being 293 head, of which 275 were 

 pheasants. 



Next came some single days at Shermanbury and 

 Coolhurst; and then the evening of the 16th November 

 found me the guest of Frank Lawson at Maeswllch 

 Castle, Glasbury-on-Wye, the party being made up by 

 Lord Hay of Kinfauns (now Lord Kinnoul), Hal 

 Faudel Phillips and " Bimbash " Stewart. Splendid 

 covers these to shoot, for fast and high did the 

 pheasants come in the four days, on one of which we 

 were joined by an extra useful shot in the person of 

 the late Mr. W. T. Baskerville, of Clyro Court. We 

 got 1262 head, of which 1133 were pheasants. The 

 bag would have been larger, but that a severe attack 

 of neuritis (which is apparently very acute neuralgia) 

 in the ball of the thumb totally incapacitated our host 



