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THE COMMON PAItTJtlDOE. 
and in ouo anil twenty aeift brock of SdvcJos,, be 
bai^^;(i(] tbirty-Bvt; mu\ a. Iiulf bnico of birtU. He 
coiidiided bin diiy'n sjmrt tianu utter ^iic in \hti even- 
injf, and Itad tlien bagj^cd eigbiy eiirbt brace of Idrds, 
and five pbea-sants ; but a di^jmte fiavin«^ arisen 
among ihe nmpirHJi about duf l)ird, Colun*d Dixon 
gave ibe point up, and I be nnmber was uliimately 
tlf't laroil to be eiudity-seven and a half brace of birds 
bag^a'd L [dicasauts and otlier {>ame not roantod in 
the niatcii ; that Mr W. Coltea nuinlier of binla 
ba;^;;(ed in t\w uvu days shooting, stantls 173 brace. 
Hti bad niuci* fewfrr sboU in tlie second than in live 
first ilny^ but lie hbot bettor, as will be seen from ibe 
Comparaiive nmnber of birdH hn«ri»fd. On Sutuniay 
lie bng^c-d 1 BO bird:* frotn 327 shots, winch was ron- 
sidi-red {rood obooting in a match of this nature, 
when a cbiince, however defiperatw it rnay appear, is 
not to be ihroH'n a^vay. His uncloi J * W. Coke, 
£»q. loaded a great part of the gun on Saturday, 
and as a (inale to the day'ti Kpurt, shot at and l<illed 
the last bird, which lii?i nephew bnij previously ndsHed 
Lady Ann Coke was in the RvM a great part of the 
day ; her ladyship t ar(rie<i r<4reslimentH for the sports- 
men in bcr pony gig. Lord Kennedy cltose for the 
Bcene of bis exploits Montreith, in Scotland, a manor 
belonging: t<J Sir William Maxwell, considered equal 
to any lands in Scotland for rearing partridges. On 
the first day of trial bis lord>bip bagged fifty, and on 
the se^nd, eighty-two brace, being in all 132 brajce 
of partridges in two days." 
