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in January 1910, just after I left Argyllshire, when he 

 and two others bagged nearly two hundred and sixty- 

 six cock in a week one hundred and eighty-one in 

 three days ? 



" Little I ask ; my wants are few," 



as Oliver Wendell Holmes writes in his well-known 

 lines on contentment. Like him, I only want a little 

 more than I have so far succeeded in obtaining, and if 

 next year only twenty, or at most thirty, woodcocks 

 fall to my gun in a single day's sport, I shall endeavour 

 to be satisfied ! 



" If heaven more generous gifts deny, 

 I shall not miss them much ; 

 Too grateful for the blessings lent 

 Of simple tastes and mind content ! " 



