We have already seen how well the Prince of Wales comported himself in India with his rifle, with which he brought down bucks, elephants, and "man-eaters," or tigers, and how he also got his spear" at pig-sticking, the finest of all our Anglo-Indian pursuits. For H. R. H. isa typical Englishman in his love of, and it may be added his excellence at, all kinds of field sports, especially shooting, to which he took vary early, so that at the age of fifteen he was said to be the best shot in his family. From the Thuringian Forest his father had brought with him to England a considerable passion for the chase, and at Balmoral the hoy Prince used to accompany him in his deer-stalking expeditions among the glens and corries of "dark Lochnagar." To such a pitch of excellence did the Prince at lust carry his stalking skill that he once made a bag of seven stays in one day in Mar Forest, the property of his son-in-law, the Dake of Fife, while, with a single shot, he slew the " the herd" of famous wild cattle in Chillingham Park, and at Bhaurtpore in Tndia he brought down nylghau at 115 yards.
An excellent and long enduring deerstalker, the Prince can also hold his own with the best on the grouse moors of the highlands, while he hys made someastonishing recoils at covert-shooting in England. His own estate of Sandringham is, for its size (8,000 acres), one of the finest sporting properties in the Kingdom, and one of his chief pleasures is to entertain shooting arties there, In the season of 1885.6 the total bag was 16,131 head, including 7,252 pheasants, of which ten thousand are'an-unally reared at Sandringham; and the results of a day's slaughter are generally distributed between hospitals, private friends, tenants, employees, and London tradesmen connected with the royal household. The Prince himself has shot all over England, and has probably a bigger slaughter record than any other man in the Kingdom.
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