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, Lord de Ros expressed his strong doubts on that 
point a match was made. 
Lord de Ros’s terms were that Capt. Horatio 
Ross should present himself on the first day of 
the following November at Mildenhall, in Suf¬ 
folk, ready to shoot partridges against anyone 
his lordship produced. It was agreed that the 
competitors were to start at sunrise without any 
halt, that no dogs were to be used by either of 
the men, while the two antagonists were to keep 
in line about fifty yards apart, and make the 
most of their ability as dead shots. Another 
part of the agreement was that each was to use 
a single-barrelled gun, that they should load 
them themselves, that the birds need not be 
picked up, but if a partridge was seen by the 
umpires to fall it was to be considered a dead 
bird. The stake was £200 a side, but besides 
this bets to a great amount were laid by the- 
friends of Captain Ross and the unknown. 
Captain Ross, when he arrived on the ground 
at Mildenhall, found that his opponent was to 
be Colonel Anson. The two breakfasted by 
candlelight with Lord de Ros, and before day¬ 
break both were waiting in the fields for the 
signal to start. The morning 1 was a foggy one, 
but taking Greenwich time for the sun’s appear¬ 
ance they, just as if he had been a traveler late 
for a railway train, went on without him. Of 
course, the light improved. Colonel Anson, then 
in his thirty-second year and well known to be 
a fast walker, went off at a rapid pace, hoping 
to break Horatio Ross down by outwalking him. 
But when there are two in a match the condi¬ 
tion of the opponent should not be overlooked, 
and Captain Ross, as it happened, was “all 
there.” He, in his own account of the famous 
match, tells us that he was rather glad to see 
the colonel forcing the running, as he was him¬ 
self in the highest possible condition, and well 
able to keep going at his best speed for four¬ 
teen or sixteen hours. All was conducted with 
the greatest fairness, and no dispute or wrangle 
occurred. 
At the start, and for some time afterwards, 
Colonel Anson had much the best of it, being 
at two o’clock seven birds ahead. Shortly after¬ 
wards Squire Osbaldeston, who guessed that 
Ross was playing a waiting game, and had 
backed him heavily, rode up and said, “Now go 
along, Ross, as hard as you can; he will lie 
down directly and die, as though he had viewed 
a beaten fox,” and acting upon this advice Ross 
at once put on the steam, and a quarter of an 
hour before sunset Mr. Charles Greville rode 
up to him to propose that the match should be 
a drawn one, for although Colonel Anson was 
one bird ahead he was so done up that he could 
not walk any further. 
“I had a great deal of money,” says the cap¬ 
tain, “about one thousand pounds, depending 
upon the issue, and had not had a shot for ten 
minutes, so that I came to the conclusion that 
at that late hour, when the birds were all out 
of the turnips and feeding in the stubble, it was 
too large a sum to risk on the chance of getting 
a brace of birds in a quarter of an hour; I, 
therefore, agreed to the proposition, was as fresh 
as when I started, and offered to set off there 
and then to walk to London against anyone there 
for £500”—an offer no one present cared to 
accept. 
I have already told one good story in which 
Captain Ross figures. Here is another, of which 
he is also the hero, though in very different 
guise. There was a certain squire—I withhold 
his name because his son is a very popular 
sportsman—who was noted in the mid-Victorian 
days for his stinginess and the strictness with 
which he preserved his game, seldom inviting 
even his most intimate friends to have a day’s 
shooting over his well-stocked coverts. Inis 
niggardly pheasant-breeder was dining at a 
neighbor’s one evening, and was introduced to 
a gentlemanly stranger who made himself ex¬ 
ceedingly agreeable, and though he had an effem¬ 
inate and dandified air, contrived to ingratiate 
himself with the crusty old squire. Presently 
the talk turned upon shooting. 
“By Jove,” drawled the young swell, with the 
affected lisp of the “Johnnie” of the period, “l 
am very fond of having a day out with the gun, 
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