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visions of black beetles and crawling reptiles, who 

 once was heard to say, as he pushed back his 

 chair after a breakfast consisting of a peach, a 

 botde of champagne, and a glass of brandy, " There, 

 I haven't eaten a heartier breakfast than that for 

 a lone time," had been shootino- at a neighbour's 

 of a host of mine, who recounted this story of his 

 doings. This young man while out shooting, and 

 being, as he himself described it, "awfully jumpy' 

 that morning, happened to be about thirty yards 

 from a hollow lane along which a beater was pro- 

 ceeding carrying three or four hares on his back. 

 They wobbled about as he walked, and the jumpy 

 youth, catching sight of their movements just above 

 the fence, instantly fired a snap shot, with the 

 effect of putting ' several pellets into the unhappy 

 beater's back. Fortunately, however, such deplor- 

 able examples are rare. 



The "jealous shot" above alluded to, is, even 

 if he be not a plasterer, an objectionable character, 

 whether you meet him at such a party as I have 



