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The week passed swiftly, day after day echoing with the steady fusillade froe Guns flashed at dawn and dusk along the flat tidal reaches haunted of black h alder swarouse burst away into noisy blundering flight; where the woodcock, wilder now, shrilled skyward like feathered rockets, and the big northern hares, not yet flecked with snowy patches of fur, loped off into swaer setters

There was a pheasant drive at Black Fells to which the Ferralls' guests were bidden by Beverly Plank--a curious scene, where ladies and gentleun-bearers, while another ihtened, bewildered, houns And the uns were left to perish in the desolation of a co winter which they were unfitted to withstand

So the first week of the season sped gaily, ending on Saturday with a heavy flight of northern woodcock and an uproarious fusillade a the silver birches

Once Ferrall loaded two motor cars with pioneers for a day beyond his own boundaries; and one day was spent ingloriously with the beagles; but otherwise the Shotover estate proved et practice, as the skill of the sportsh on snipe and cock, was driven alrouse; Voucher did better for a day or two, and then lost the knack; Marion Page attended to business in her cool and thorough style, and her average on the gun-room books was excellent, and was also adorned with clever pen-and-ink sketches by Siward

Leroy Morti and established himself as a haunter of cushions in sunny corners Tos Beverly Plank, an to pervade the house after a tentative appearance; and he and Major Belwether pottered about the coverts, usually after luncheon--the latter doing little da-piece, and nobody kne ue Quarrier appeared in the fieldno chances for a brilliant perfore As for the Page boys, they kept the river ducks stirring whenever Eileen Shannon and Rena Bonnesdel could be persuaded to share the canoes with them Otherwise they haunted the vicinity of those boredsnubs sorrowfully, but persistently faithful They were a great nuisance in the evening, especially as their sister did not permit them to lose more than ten dollars a day at cards