made with the second. The latter rule, needless to say, led to the constant and enthusiastic use of double barrelled shotguns by all members.

The Club held three more organized competitions through the summer, at each one trying a different elevation notch on the trap, a variety of screening procedures, and a number of different yards rise. The best score recorded at the three events was Hobkirk's 8 x 10 on July 19, while Rowan FitzGerald, out for the first time, was the low-score gunner hitting only two. Only a few of the members made it to these summer events, but as fall and winter approached, their numbers increased. No doubt the Prince Edward Island summers, then, as now, had that magical quality that encourages relaxation and tends to inhibit all energetic desires.

Doctor Ernest Blanchard, during this period, did not once miss attending or promoting the new clay- target sport. Perhaps because he lived only a few hundred yards from the Belvidere field, or because both he and stamp dealer William Hobkirk, more than the others, were now totally sold on this form of shotgunning participation. They had ina few short months acquired "the bug."

As 1884 moved into November, the Club had pretty well accepted the first-notch setting, a screened trap, and a 20-yard rise as the standard. A competition, scheduled for October 25, developed a slight problem when the members arrived at the Belvidere Wood to find the fields in the area had all been plowed under, making it rather difficult to participate. Ernest Blanchard suggested they all move down the road to his back field at Falconwood, and being portable, the Club transition was simple. At Falconwood they shot 12 targets, with Francis Haszard, Ernest Blanchard, and Francis Arnaud being tops for the day breaking 8 of the clays.

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