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occasion was much put out because he had so 
little sport and sternly asked his head-keeper 
if they would find a better supply in the next 
covert* “I hope so, my lord,” said the depend¬ 
ent. “Hope so!” roared the peer, ’’do you think 
I give you a hundred a year to hope? Now go 
off at once, and beat that wood this way, ana 
I’ll post the guns.” “Your lordship means this 
wood,” said the functionary, pointing in an op¬ 
posite direction. “No, I don’t.” “But, my 
] or d_” “Not a word more, sir. Obey my 
orders.” The wood was traversed through and 
through, but without the least result so far as 
filling the sportsmen’s bags was concerned. His 
lordship’s wrath was terrible, until the head- 
keeper managed to get out: “This is not your 
wood at all, my lord, it belongs to your neigh¬ 
bor, who shot over it last Friday!” 
I think the severest test of a man’s sports¬ 
manship is wildfowl shooting. To succeed in 
that difficult and arduous sport requires an 
amount of endurance, patience and hardihood, 
a contempt for discomfort and a capacity for 
standing exposure and fatigue, which you will 
find in none but a genuine enthusiast But to 
those who can undergo the hardships it entails, 
wildfowl shooting is the finest sport these 
islands afford. Col. Peter Hawker is generally 
credited with being the father of wild-fowling, 
and assuredly none ever pursued the sport with 
greater skill or keener ardor. Next to him, and 
indeed, almost, if not quite, his equal, I would 
place Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey. Sir Ralph’s 
great bag of 1,500 ducks and geese in the hard 
winter of '1880-81, has never been approachea, 
and I do not suppose that it will ever be, now 
that wild-fowl shooting is becoming every year 
harder to obtain. Some of the feats performed 
by both these great sportsmen were stupendous. 
Colonel Hawker once bagged 100 brent-geese in 
one discharge of his double-barrelled swivel gun 
in the Solent, and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey has 
frequently killed fifty or sixty widgeon at a shot, 
and sometimes sixty or seventy. This, of course, 
was with especially constructed guns for wild¬ 
fowl, carrying a charge of two pounds of shot. 
The biggest bag of widgeon that ever fell in 
one shot was, I believe, 127. But I have heard 
of no less than 300 geese falling to a single vol¬ 
ley from six guns fired by signal off the mouth 
of the Blackwater, in Essex. 
Colonel Hawker was a sportsman, and not a 
mere slaughterer of game. He kept a diary of 
every day’s shooting during the fifty seasons of 
his career. His sum total for the whole period 
was 17,753 head of all kinds, including 7,035 
partridges, 575 pheasants, 3,816 snipe, 4,488 
swans, ducks and geese, 1,531 riverside and sea¬ 
shore birds, and the rest various. He was con¬ 
tent with small bags, and found his own game 
in places where it was by no means plentiful. , 
Wnw Hparllv a shot he was mav be gathered 
How deadly a shot he was may be gathered 
from the fact that he frequently killed fourteen 
or fifteen snipe in succession without a miss, 
and seldom failed to account for eighteen out 
of every twenty partridges he fired at. There , 
are not many sportsmen now-a-days who can 
compare with him either in moderation or skill. 
Indeed, notwithstanding the increased, superi¬ 
ority of modern fowling-pieces in rapidity of 
firing, precision and range, I do not see that the 
shooting of to-day is superior to that of the 
old time. I do not think I could point to any 
gunner of the present year of grace whom it 
would be safe to back for beating, for example, 
certain feats of Capt. Horatio Ross, who was 
as great with the gun as with the rifle. Take 
an instance. In the month of July, 1828, Captain 
Ross was on his way back from the Red House, 
Battersea—where the Duke of Wellington and 
the Earl of Winchelsea fought their duel—being 
in company with General Anson and Lord de 
Ross. Among other words spoken in the con¬ 
versation homewards, Lord de Ross said, “No 
one has a chance with Captain Ross at pigeons, 
but I doubt if he would be equally successful 
with partridges”—in Lord de Ros’s opinion one 
of the severest tests of a man[s quickness ana 
readiness as a shooter. Captain Ross said he 
was as good at partridges as at pigeons, and as 
