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partridges — nearly every shot that presented itself was 

 a difficult one, and I have often seen four or five 

 times as much killed in the same time, without getting 

 one-tenth of the fun this shoot gave us. Sir Richard 

 Graham, of Netherby, the Hon. Hugh Buncombe, and 

 Colonel Edgar Larkin made up the party. 



Next, on the 23rd October, I had a nice day of 

 301 pheasants as the guest of Charles Crews at Billing- 

 bear Park, Twyford, the other guns being the Hon. 

 H. Hare, William Rhodes, and Emil and Alfred Bieder- 

 mann ; and with this last-named friend, on the 20th 

 November, at Forest Lodge, Three Bridges, seven of us 

 got 520 pheasants and 4 woodcock. 



Then came more days at East Tisted and Maresfield, 

 till, on the 11th December, I found myself once again 

 at Carnanton, the guest of Captain G. W. Hunt, who 

 now rents this rare good sporting place from Brydges 

 Willy ams. In three days six of us got just under 

 400 pheasants and 21 woodcock ; but here, again, the 

 shooting was all quality, for the covers are " hanging " 

 ones, and the birds were consequently very tall. On 



