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THE COMMON PARTRIDGE. 
and in one and twenty acre breck of Swedes, lie 
bagged thirty-five and a half brace of birds. He 
concluded his days sport soon after six in the even- 
ing, and hat! then bagged eighty-eight brace of birds, 
and five pheasants ; hut a dispute having arisen 
among the umpires about one bird, Colonel Dixon 
gave the point up, and the number was ultimately 
declared to he eighty-seven ami a half brace of birds 
bagged ; pheasants and other game not counted in 
the match ; so that Mr W. Coke’s number of birds 
bagged in the two davs shootinir, stands 173 brace. 
He had much fewer shots in the second than in the 
first day, but lie shot better, as will he seen from the 
comparative number of birds bagged. On Saturday 
Jie bagged 180 birds from 327 shots, which was con- 
sidered good shooting in a match of this nature, 
when a chance, however desperate it may appear, is 
not to be thrown away. His uncle, T. W. Coke, 
Esq. loaded a great part of the gun on Saturday, 
ami as a finale to the day’s sport, shot at and killed 
the last bird, which Ids nephew had previously missed 
Lady Ann Coke was in the field a great part of the 
day; her ladyship carried refreshments for the sports- 
men in her pony gig. Lord Kennedy chose for the 
scene of his exploits Montreitb, in Scotland, a manor 
belonging to Sir William Maxwell, considered equal 
to any lands in Scotland for rearing partridges. On 
the first day of trial his lordship bagged fifty, and on 
the second, eighty-two brace, being in all 132 brace 
of partridges in two days.’' 
