Shelley and Hogg from this time forward spent a large part of their days and nights together in common studies, walks and conversations.

It was their habit to pass the morning, each in his own rooms, absorbed in private reading.

At one o'clock they met and lunched, and then started for long rambles in the country.

Shelley frequently carried pistols with him upon these occasions, and would stop to fix his father's franks upon convenient trees and shoot at them.

The practice of pistol shooting, adopted so early in life, was afterwards one of his favourite amusements in the company of Byron.