speed. Without a miss, I shot the four leading ones as they tried

to run the gauntlet, for in passing between the stand and the fence,

the innocent creatures were not more than ten to fifteen paces from

me. At the fourth I stopped, but the gamekeepers insisted on more

butchery, saying, "No one but the King ever did the like" (I guess no

one else had ever had the chance), so, thus urged, I continued firing

till I had slaughtered eleven with eleven shots--an easy task with a

shot-gun and buckshot cartridges.