CHAP, XXXVI.] VARIETY OF GAME. 277 
-CHAPTER XXXVI. 
Variety of Game. 
Tue list of game killed by my own gun on the 21st of October, 
appears in my game-book to have been as follows :— 
Grouse. ...... 6 
Partridge. . .... 13 
Woodeock.. .... 1 
Pheasant ew « oD 
Wildduck ..... 1 
Snipes... . 2... 4 
Teal... er erae | 
Curlew. .... ‘ 3 
Plover . aye 4 
Jacksnipe.. ... 2 
Hare . eee mets; 
Rabbit. ...... 2 
Though the number of animals in this list may not seem great 
to many of my sporting friends in England and Scotland, a 
prettier variety of game could scarcely be killed by one gun in 
any single locality, and the whole of them were shot during a 
few hours’ walk, and in a most stormy and windy day. I had 
promised to send a hamper of game to a friend in Edinburgh, 
and knowing that he would prize it more if I could make up a 
variety than if I sent him double the quantity of any one kind, I 
determined to hunt a wild part of my shooting-ground, where I 
should have a chance of finding ducks, snipes, &c. 
__ I started after breakfast with a single pointer, and my ever- 
lasting companion, an old retriever. As the steam-boat for 
Edinburgh started the next day, I was obliged, though the wind 
blew nearly a hurricane, to make the best of it, and face the wind 
in the dreary and upland ground, which I had determined to beat, 
and where I had sent an 1ttendant to meet me. 
