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whiles to ha’e a keek ower the bank at them. 
At last when my feet were that deid I couldna 
feel them, only a ring that burnt like fire roon 
each leg at the top o’ the water, I cam’ to the 
bend. I gets the gun ready, an’ wades cannily 
roon the corner. They were that busy feedin’ 
they didna jist see me a’ at ance, so I creeps 
a wee bit closer, when a’ o’ a sudden up they 
gets, a maist awfu’ cloud o’ them, an’ no’ forty 
yairds awa’! Weel, I ups wi’ the gun, an’ aims 
fair at the thickest o’ them. I pil’d the tricker, 
and — man, she snappit!” — Wilson H. Armistead 
in the Scottish Field. 
OLD-TIME SHOOTING. 
Some idea of what could be done in the old 
days may be gathered from the writings of Col. 
Hawker and others in the last century. The 
former tells us that he has seen fourteen suc¬ 
cessive double shots at partridges scored with¬ 
out a miss, and on another occasion fifteen 
“rights” and “lefts” straight off the rfeel. In 
both instances the guns used were of a smaller 
caliber than those employed to-day—the one 
a 14-bore and the other a 22! 
Any twentieth century sportsman who could 
do equally well with a modern 12-bore would 
have reason to be proud of his performance, 
but the feat would be very much less remarkable 
than either of those just referred to. And how 
many of 11s could emulate the prowess of a 
certain friend of the Colonel’s, whose record 
for five days’ shooting was sixty head of game 
of various kinds in an equal number of shots! 
Lord Walsingham of course holds the record 
for the most remarkable single-handed day’s 
shooting ever recorded in these islands. On 
Aug. 28, 1872, his lordship, using two muzzle¬ 
loading guns and two breech-loaders in turn, 
bagged 842 grouse on Blubberhouses Moor, 
Yorkshire, shooting for about twelve hours. 
Sixteen years later, however. Lord Walsing¬ 
ham eclipsed his earlier performance. 
Beginning to shoot soon after 5 o’clock in 
the morning on Aug. 30, 1888, his lordship had 
killed to his own gun no fewer than 1,070 grouse 
by 7:30 in the evening. The birds on this oc¬ 
casion were driven to the butts by forty beaters, 
and four breech-loaders-—loaded with black 
powder—were employed. 
The late Sir Frederick Milbank, one of the 
most skilful all round shots ever seen iii this 
country, had 728 'grouse to his own gun during 
a day’s driving as one of a party of several guns 
in August, 1872. 
Heavy bags of snipe and woodcock are, one 
hears, chiefly a thing of the past; they are at 
least much less common nowadays than 
formerly. But strangely enough it is only 
fifteen years ago that the biggest bag of wood¬ 
cock on record for a single day was obtained. 
This was at Ashford, Ireland, on Lord 
Ardilaun’s estate, where no fewer than 205 ’cock 
were killed on Jan. 25, 1895. The bag for six 
days was 508 ’cock. Lord Elcho once bagged 
1,250 ’cock in a season at Muckross, Ireland, 
840 of these being obtained in ten days’ shoot¬ 
ing. Nothing like this has ever been done in 
England, the best single day’s bag ever re¬ 
corded being one of 105 woodcock in Swanton 
Wood, Norfolk, during December, i860. 
Probably the most famous shot at woodcock 
ever made was that which Chantrey, the sculp¬ 
tor, brought off, quite by accident, it is said. 
By great good fortune a couple of woodcock 
rose simultaneously and happening to cross at 
the moment that Chantrey pulled the trigger 
both were brought down by the single shot. 
This remarkable performance was immortalized 
by its hero, who carved the two woodcock in 
imperishable marble. 
Though heavy bags of snipe have often been 
obtained in Great Britain — 70 to 80 couple have 
been killed in a day before now — India will al¬ 
ways hold the record in this branch of shooting 
so far as Englishmen are concerned. 
Col. Peyton, who was a renowned snipe shot, 
frequently had his 90 couple before midday in 
the Indian paddy fields. There is a story of 
an Irishman who once bagged 212 snipe in the 
