

scVL-n branl. vSuch was the: result of the w.-rk of seven 

 weekly parties, aggregathig fifty-seven sportsmen, with : 

 average of twenty-eight to each party, and, as our i)art) 

 bagged thirty-six, we have no reason to complain. ( )t the 

 one-hundred and ninety-seven killed, one-hundred and 

 three were voung l)irtls and ninety-four old birds. This 

 proportion of young l)irds ought to have made the shooting 

 better, as the young birds (.in the language of the president 

 of the club, Mr. \V. Hapgood > "are less wary, more social 

 and more easily decoyed, and will carry off less lead than 

 the tough old binls, and then it often happens that the 

 elders are led by unsuspicious youth into places of danger 

 where it would Ix- impossible to coax them when separated, 

 therefore the presence of so many juvenile visitors is 

 always a joy to the heart of the sportsman. " 



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