On the day before one of the annual parties at Clumber broke up, two sets went out, each consisting of three persons, and a bet was laid which should kill most game. It was computed that, on an average, each man of the six got sixty shots; total, three hundred and sixty. The winning triumvirate killed three birds! The shooters were, Lord Lincoln, General Philips, Captain (afterwards General) Lascelles, Reverend Mr. Lascelles, Mr. Cotton, and Lieutenant Colonel Stricland. Here the game had a complete triumph over their adversaries.—_Daniel_—_Sporting Anecdotes._ BAWREL, _s._ A kind of hawk. _Obs._ BAWSIN, _s._ A badger. _Obs._ BAY, _a._ A colour. Of the bays, there are many varieties, and they include the very best of our horses of every description. The bright yellow bay, although very beautiful, and especially if his mane and tail are black, is the least valuable, because the lightness of his colour seems to give him some tenderness of constitution. The proper bay, with no white about him, and black from the knees and the hocks to the feet, is the most desirable of all colours; he has generally a good constitution, naturally good feet, and, if his conformation is not faulty, will turn out a valuable horse for almost every purpose.—_The Horse._ BAY, _s._ An opening in the land; the state of anything surrounded by enemies; a tree. BAY, _v._ To bark, as a dog, at the moon; to shut in. BAY SALT, _s._ Salt made of sea water, which receives its consistence from the heat of the sun, and is so called from its brown colour. BAYARD, _s._ A bay horse. BEACH, _s._ The shore; the strand. BEADLE, _s._ In _forestry_, is an officer that warns all the courts of the forest, executes process, makes all proclamations, &c. &c. BEAGLE, _s._ A small hound, with which hares are hunted. [Illustration] This is the smallest of the dogs of the chase which go under the general denomination of hound; meaning that kind which have the innate property of finding their game and pursuing it by what sportsmen call scent, which seems to be an impregnation of the atmosphere with certain effluvia issuing from the pores of the skin, and acting upon the olfactory membrane of the dog’s nose. Although the beagle is far inferior in point of speed to the harrier, yet his sense of smelling a hare is equally exquisite, and he pursues her with indefatigable vigilance, energy, and perseverance. Every winding and all the mazes are traced by him with a degree of exactness which must be seen to be properly understood and justly estimated, while the soft and melodious tones of his voice afford ecstatic pleasure to the lovers of the chase, and is thus finely described by Somerville:—