A Method of dating dead Game. Recommended in Sir 

 Thomas Frankland's " Cautions to Young Sportsmen" 

 ed. 2, page 8. 



" The following is a simple method of dating the day on 

 which birds were killed. Let the six fore toes represent the 

 six shooting days of the week. The left toe of the left foot 

 answering for Monday, count from thence to the right toe 

 of the right foot, which is to pass for Saturday. Let any 

 portion of that toe which corresponds to the day on which 

 the bird was killed, be cut off. If a part of one or more 

 toes has been shot off, cut that which is to register the day 

 still shorter. I am aware that a whole foot may be carried 

 away; but in general the practice will answer. Perhaps in 

 a well-regulated larder, what I propose may be idle; but 

 it is paricularly useful in the case of game sent weekly 

 from distant manors." 



75, 

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Left Foot. Right Foot. 



X.B. This bird is supposed to have been killed on a 

 Wednesday. 



