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on, and the dogs get very busy. Whirr ! 

 Up gets a covey. Alas ! I have still a snipe 

 cartridee in the ricrht barrel, but can and do 

 bag one with the left. The covey goes out 

 of bounds. In the next bottom we cross, R. 

 gets another hare, and as we go on we see a 

 covey of partridges come over and settle in 

 a hio-h eorse ridit before us. We had a 

 dead mark, but can do nothing. The dogs 

 work about, and presendy give tongue, but 

 continuously. For twenty minutes they 

 push their quarry through gorse nearly three 

 feet high and very strong, till at last it (a 

 rabbit) breaks cover across the high road 

 and gives an easy shot to me, who am stand- 

 ing on the bank. By rolling bunny over I 

 much startle a couple of lovers, who are 

 strolling arm in arm along the road a score 

 of yards on, wrapt in one another, and who 



