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near his cottage, snipe began to arrive, and he was often called upon to exer- 
cise his vocal powers on the curlews that passed to and fro. By the end of 
September, good snipe shooting was generally to be met with in his neigh- 
bourhood ; and his accurate knowledge of the marshes, his unassuming 
good humour, and zeal in providing sport for those who employed him, made 
him very much sought after as a sporting guide, by snipe shots and fisher- 
men ; and his knowledge of the habits of different birds enabled him to give 
useful information to those who collected them. These hardy fen-men, 
inured to toil and privation, were the great supporters of an old Norfolk 
pastime, as they doubtless thought it — “ Camping.” It required muscle 
and endurance of pain beyond common limits, and somewhat resembled the 
'pancratium of the ancients, but was rather more severe/’ 
It does not appear that subsequent to the publication of the 
‘Fauna,’ in 1845, Mr. Lubbock contributed anything further to 
ornithological literature, even in “ Notes” to Natural History 
journals, but his friendly correspondence on such subjects was by 
no means diminished through the popularity of his work, and, as 
the writer of this memoir can abundantly testify, he was ever 
ready to supply information and assist those whose kindred tastes 
led them to take up — where he had left it — the study of the 
‘ Fauna of Norfolk.’ Still residing at Eccles, as he had done 
since his appointment to the living in 1837, his clerical duties 
occupied his attention till within two years of his death, and his 
leisure time was chiefly devoted to reading when the infirmities of 
age and failing health forbade further indulgence in his former 
active pursuits. It was not till this period of his life that I first 
made the acquaintance of Mr. Lubbock personally, though well- 
known for some years as a correspondent. A visit to a friend in 
his immediate neighbourhood, in the summer of 1875, gave me 
the opportunity of calling upon him, and, though he was far from 
well at the time, and extremely feeble, I shall also remember that 
interview with peculiar satisfaction. His welcome to one whoso 
interest in the Birds of Norfolk owes so much to his inspiration 
was hearty in the extreme, and in a very short space of time our 
conversation had ranged from the Bustard of the past to the irrup- 
tion of Sand-grouse in 1863 — an event which appeared to have 
interested him greatly at the time — and, as he brightened up with 
the discussion of his favourite topics, his recollection seemed as 
vivid as ever of events which had occurred when he first know the 
broads, even to the number of “ Loons” he had known in one 
