132 A MEDLEY OF SPORT 



so heated did my own gun become, that I was glad to 

 wind a handkerchief round my left hand. Nevertheless 

 I am bound to confess that the number of empty cartridge 

 cases which lay strewn round my stand, after the fusillade 

 was over, greatly exceeded the sum total of my bag. In 

 short, I very soon learned that a guinea-fowl, when fairly 

 on the wing, takes quite as much stopping as a " tall " 

 pheasant. 



Two more beats of the covert were made, and a 

 goodly bag of guinea-fowl, together with several steinbok 

 and duiker, shot. But one beat was very much like 

 another, and as I did not shoot by any means brilliantly 

 in either, I will cry, " Non mi ricordiy 



