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and more untrammelled life than can be ob¬ 
tained in Europe and who does not shrink from 
hard work in a new land, there is still plenty of 
room in the plains of Patagonia. 
AN OLD-TIME SHOT. 
The second Lord Malmesbury besides being 
one of the best shots of his day was without 
question the most painstaking and careful 
chronicler of his sport who ever fired a gun, 
says the Spectator. For forty seasons, ending 
with the year 1840, he kept a record of every 
cartridge he fired and the result of the shot— 
a feat which may have a parallel, but is hardly 
likely to be beaten. He fired in all 54,987 shots 
and accounted for 38,454 head of game with 
them, besides some four hundred and eighty 
which he did not add to his figures; they were 
the birds he killed when he hit more than one 
with the same shots. As for walking, there 
never was such an untiring pursuer of every 
bird and beast that could be entered in a game 
book. He calculated that he was out for four 
hours a day for ninety days in the year, which 
made 14,480 hours’ walking in forty years, and 
since he walked at the rate of two and a half 
miles an hour, he remarks that in all he must 
have covered .36,200 miles, “very nearly once 
and a half the circumference of the globe.” He 
was never in bed for a day, and not thirty days 
confined to the house by accident or illness— 
though to be sure his violent exercise affected 
his heart and he died at 64. 
The lists of his hits and misses are particu¬ 
larly interesting when you compare his records 
of shots at birds like snipe and woodcock, which 
were as difficult to hit in his day as they are in 
ours, with the kind of figures which would be 
likely or possible with modern guns. In the 
season 1819-20, for instance, Lord Malmesbury 
fired eighty-three shots at woodcock and 
bagged forty-five, and out of four hundred and 
eleven shots at snipe he actually got two hun¬ 
dred and sixteen, which is somewhat better 
than one out of two. Any snipe shot to-day 
would be pleased with a record of three out of 
five, taking the wilder, twistier snipe of late 
autumn and winter with the home bred snipe 
killed in August and September. You read 
these records, and those of men like John 
Mytton, who would make a point of invariably 
killing fifty brace of partridges to his own gun 
on the first day of the season, and wonder how 
with their slow firing guns and their bad shot 
patterns they managed to kill even one bird in 
four. “A gun never shoots twice alike,” 
Colonel Hawker wrote, and he shot with the 
best guns he could buy. How did they man¬ 
age it? 
Somehow, with guns which their great-grand¬ 
children would not burden a keeper with they 
did contrive to shoot as well as we do, and 
somehow the pictures made of them while they 
were shooting give you the idea that they en¬ 
joyed the shooting more. 
LONG ISLAND DEER. 
Capt. John Burr, of Oakdale, L. L, is not 
as sensitive about the poor deer as some people, 
says the Times. Out his way the deer are so 
tame that they consider themselves part and 
parcel of the farm live stock, yet cannot be 
treated as such legally. 
“Now, if a cow should persist in entering my 
cabbage patch and eating the tender hearts out 
of all my winter cabbages, she would not long 
remain a cow, but would be converted into 
beef,” said Capt. Burr. “The deer, on the con¬ 
trary, stick at no barrier any one is able to erect 
about their fields, leaping the highest fences 
and eating his choicest cabbages.” 
Not finding sufficient to eat in the woods of 
Suffolk county, the deer are said to have spoiled 
hundreds of dollars’ worth of vegetables this 
fall. The law prohibits any one from shooting 
them, but says nothing about shooing them. 
This the owners of gardens and farms are con¬ 
stantly doing. 
“It seems rather unsportsmanlike to hunt 
deer with clubs and broomsticks,” said an east 
ender -yesterday, “but what is a fellow to do? 
We have to go afield and fairly throw clubs at 
them to preserve our cabbages.” 
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