THE LAST DAY AT CIIEE-IIA. 



age. This shooting took place at Flat Rock, North 

 Carolina, before witnesses invited to mark his 

 score. Partridges, with a few pheasants and wood- 

 cock, were the game hunted and he succeeded, on 

 unfavorable ground, in bagging thirty-three birds 

 successively, without a miss! The series was 

 broken by a clear miss at a cock pheasant, which 

 sprung up unexpectedly before him on Glassy Moun- 

 tain. Mr* William Johnstone, who was in com- 

 pany, will remember it as closing the series. I 

 don't know that he remembers indorsing that miss 

 with one of his own ! 



In early life, the writer of these sports was rather 

 indifferent as to the gun he used. Provided that 

 the lock was reliable, and the barrel straight, it did 

 its work to his satisfaction. At a later period, he 

 indulged himself in a "Westly-Richards 14 gauge. 



The shooting of which I have here given the re- 

 cord, may be deemed good, or otherwise, according 

 to the skill or opportunities of the reader. The 

 writer is not aware that it has been beaten in this 

 part of the country. But what, after all, is the ex- 

 cellence and precision which the most accom- 

 plished gentleman sportsman may attain, compared 

 with the expertness of the sleight-of-hand man, dis- 

 played in his daily feats of legerdemain ? I remem- 



