before campaigns against 'the reign of the parson and the landlord' formed 'planks in the platform' of a party in the State. In some few cases, no doubt, preservation was carried to excess, and disputes arose between shooting and farming tenants; but, as a rule, liberal compensation was forthcoming, and the farmer in the end suffered nothing. The days, however, when the
Merry brown hares came leaping
Over the meadow and hill
have passed away, probably for ever, on most English manors. Never, perhaps, will such days of sport come again as were obtained in the 'sixties' and 'seventies.' On December 22, 1865, Lord Londesborough with three other guns, shooting at Scoreby in Yorkshire, killed 585 hares, besides a similar number of pheasants. In 1864, five guns on the Selby estate of the same ardent sportsman killed 531 on November 11. On the Gedling estate of the late Lord Chesterfield in Nottinghamshire, six guns on November 30, 1869, bagged 781 hares, and on December 3 of the same year no less than 823 fell to the same number of guns. While in 1878, by six guns shooting at Londesborough, 1,217 were killed in three consecutive days in the month of November.
Norfolk has always been in the front where game
