SHOOTING 



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I COME of an essentially sporting stock. A 

 remote ancestor of mine named Beowulf de 

 Byffyne (closely related to Reginald Coeur de 



Boeuf, and grandson of Herebald the Drake) 

 was the founder of an early British Syndicate, 

 the members of which combined to rent a snipe- 



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