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wrote home to my master, Mr. FuUer-Mait- 

 land, about it. Mr. Maitland was displeased, 

 and told me not to do anything of the sort 

 again, and I promised that I would not. 



Mr. Bowtel, of the " Rose and Crown," 

 Elsenham, wanted me to go into Bedfordshire 

 to shoot a similar match. He offered to back 

 me for fifty pounds, and give me twenty out 

 of the fifty if I won, whilst he agreed that, in 

 case I lost, he would pay all expenses and it 

 should cost me nothing. I declined, however, 

 because my master would have been dis- 

 pleased, and because I had promised not to 

 do anything of the sort again. 



I once took my gun and ferret and went to 

 Durrels Wood, leaving home at eleven o'clock, 

 and returning, at two, to dinner. Between 

 these times I had twenty-one shots, twenty at 

 rabbits, and one at a weasel, and I killed every 

 time, bringing back twenty rabbits and a 

 weasel. 



My son Tom, who now lives at Llandrindod 

 Wells, Radnorshire, went out one day with 

 my underkeeper, Alfred Gayler, who is now 



