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perhaps because the shooter has to look all round 

 him to see that no stray keeper or retriever is in the 

 way before he fires. 



But there are very few of these, and now all is over 

 with this prolific " clump," as it is called ; but it is 

 really a little oval -shaped wood of some four to six 

 acres. The host and his companion emerge from it, 

 hopes his friends have had good sport, pays a well- 

 placed compliment or two to those whom he has 

 especially observed " tearing them down," as he says, 

 "out of the skies." The keepers and beaters collect 

 the slain, and they all hurry on to the next covert. 

 Fear not, reader ! I will not repeat the dose. 

 Although "Ex uno disce omnes" by no means 

 applies to shooting — for it has many varieties — space, 

 if not humanity, forbids my following the party 

 further. Enough to say that, as was inevitable with 

 fine weather, plenty of game, good management, and 

 first-class guns, the head keeper at the end of the 

 day, with a face radiant with satisfaction, hands a 

 card to the host, who enumerates large totals to his 



