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hesitation in putting down the diminished numbers 

 to the account of the poulterers in London and 

 elsewhere. Perhaps some one well acquainted with 

 Norway will tell us from what part of that country 

 the large supplies with which it is credited come to 

 our markets ! 



Here is the best bag ever made on the Duke's 

 ground : 



SANQUHAR, DUMFRIESSHIRE 



(1 rouse ..... 5 

 Black-game .... 247 

 Partridges . . . . .21 

 Pheasant ..... i 

 Hares ..... 40 

 Rabbits ..... 2 



Total . . . 316 



the guns including H.R.H. Prince Christian, the late 

 Duke of Buccleuch, and eight others. Of the 247 

 black-game over 100 brace were cocks, and I fancy 

 this constitutes the record bag of these birds. 



In 1874, at Newlands near Langholm, another of 

 the Duke's estates on the Border, the present Duke 

 and Colonel Francis Cust bagged 98 black-game, Si 

 cocks and 17 greyhens, in one day, starting late and 

 having only one gun each. The Duke informs me that 

 if they had begun earlier and had taken two guns each 



