7 DECEMBER 1912, Page 36

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "Srecraron."] SIR,—Your article under the

above heading in your issue of November 30th recalls an incident which I heard related by my late father-in-law. He and his brother-in-law were snipe- shooting on Sedgmoor. They were walking some distance apart when my father-in-law heard a double shot and saw his companion waving frantically to him to come. When he got to him, he told him with much excitement that he had got an extraordinary "right and left," a woodcock and a. jack snipe. When the "woodcock" and the "jack snipe" were retrieved with considerable difficulty from the other side of a broad rhino, they proved to be a marsh owl and a titlark.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Upper Hardres Rectory, Canterbury.

W. A. NEWMAN.