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Grey's 240 partridges in one drive, 1 of John Robert's 

 spot-barred break of 1,300 odd, or of Dr. Grace's 

 hundreds in an innings. The first-rate form which 

 gradually builds up a great reputation is sure on some 

 rare occasion, when all conditions are favourable, to 

 produce an exceptional or startling feat ; but there is 

 no reason on this account to imagine that all the 

 ordinary rules of the sport in question are to be sub- 

 versed by this meteoric performance, or to deplore the 

 fact that the result exceeds what had been foreseen. 

 These isolated achievements, properly considered, do 

 no harm, but on the contrary merely serve to raise 

 the general standard of excellence in all outdoor 

 amusements which it has always been the pride of the 

 Englishman to maintain before the world. Some 

 fifty years ago Colonel Campbell of Monzie made 

 bags to his own gun over dogs which have never been 

 surpassed, excepting perhaps on one occasion by the 

 late Maharajah Duleep Singh.- I do not think any 



1 This is, no doubt, the record for an individual perform- 

 ance in a partridge drive ; the feat, which I give on Lord de 

 (irey's own authority, was performed by him last year, 1893, 

 at Baron de Ilirsch's in Hungary. 



- Colonel Campbell killed in one (.lay in 1843, i84./ brace 

 of grouse ; in 1846, 191 brace; and on the authority of 'Hark- 

 away ' is said on another day to have killed 222?, brace. 

 The Maharajah Uuleep Singh in 1872 bagged 220 brace in 

 a day. 



