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prizes at Wimbledon, York, and many other Rifle 

 Meetings througLout England and Scotland. He 

 competed in at least eight International matches 

 as a member of the English Twenty. He has 

 cups on his sideboard won at Tir National Meet- 

 ings in Belgium and Switzerland. As a game 

 shot, I believe he holds the record bag of grouse 

 ever made in England in one day over dogs, viz. : 

 eighty-five brace on Bowes Moor, on 12th August, 

 1872. His extraordinary walking powers gave 

 him a great advantage in the old point-shooting 

 days, and his setters, broken by himself, could 

 not be beaten. At driven grouse, I never saw 

 his equal. I have shot driven grouse with two 

 men who were included in the twelve selected best 

 shots in the Badminton Magazine, and neither, in 

 my opinion, was as good as Chapman. I shall 

 never forget the day when a prop turned five or 

 six small packs of grouse flying high and very 

 fast down the line of butts. I was number one. 

 Chapman number four ; two and three were above 

 the average shots ; we all gave them two barrels, 

 but nothing fell until opposite four, when every 

 time, two fell side by side. He always says that 

 he excelled most as a trout fisherman ; I never 

 saw anybody that could kill fish when hooked so 

 quickly. He knew before we got to the river 



