No one had a greater fund of amusing anecdotes than the late Lord Charles Beresford, and some of his best were about Irishmen. One com cerned a certain son of Erin, who described his first day’s shooting in the following very Hibernian way: '.‘The first bird I ever shot,” he "was a squirrel, and the first time I hit him I missed him altogether, and the next time T hit him in the same place,. After that I took a stone and dropped him from the treei, and he fell into the water and was drowned, arid that was the first bird I ever shot.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4366, 16 January 1922, Page 2
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