Sporting Notes in th* Far East. 213 



Bag. 



2 Guns, September, 1885. 

 398 Snipe (not including lost birds). 



This enormous bag was "obtained by two of the best shots of 

 Penang, in an exceptional good season. 



:ive boys are more useful as retrievers- than dogs. 

 And now with these few remarks on this place, I have arrived 

 at the end of my tether, so I will u coil up ropes " and conclude 

 this catalogue of scattered information such as it is. ' 



a last few words, I must here observe, that gladly as I received 

 tidings of the long wished for " Orders for Home " : it was not 

 without a deep pang of regret that I realized, and only too distinctly, 

 that perchance for the last time had I laid low the fat duck and 

 twisting snipe, in those distant though "Happy Hunting Grounds" 

 of Far Cathay ! 



FINIS. 



