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the off-days — which included two on the Gorse Moor, 

 so long attached to Carnanton, and now in the hands 

 of Mr. Michael Williams — I got forty snipe and some 

 ducks ; but there was nothing like the usual quantity 

 of "stuff" on the marsh as there was when it 

 belonged to Carnanton — a fact perhaps to be accounted 

 for by the frequency with which it is now shot, 

 and, though the total yield is about the same, the 

 glory of the big bag days has departed, and nothing 

 is now achieved on it to compare with the scores 

 made in old days by Brydges Willyams and his 

 friends, or even by myself in recent times. 



On December 1st, 1885, I had 5 wild duck, 22 

 teal, and 16 snipe; on December 10th, 1886, 6 ducks, 

 8 teal, 19 snipe; on December 7th, 1887, 1 widgeon, 

 14 teal, 29 snipe; on the 12th, 1 duck, 1 widgeon, 

 10 teal, 22 snipe ; and on the 14th, 1 widgeon, 1 

 duck, 12 teal, 12 snipe. 



Next, on the 31st December, I had another nice 

 day at Coolhurst, Horsham, with Scrase-Dickens, four 

 of us getting eighty pheasants second time through. 



