38 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



" 'Dock Lodge' owns a dropper and shoots partridges ; 

 tells me he shoots every day for two or three hours, when 

 he stops for dinner. 



" 'Ike Woolen' owns a setter ; shoots every day. 



"Buster Key's son owns an Irish setter; shoots part- 

 ridges. 



"Fred and Ollis Evans shoot partridges ; Fred tells me 

 that he and Willie Brown (colored sportsman) went out 

 one day last year and killed thirteen partridges. Fred 

 says — and I believe him — that he and Willie killed more 

 partridges than a party of sportsmen who were shooting 

 the same day. 



" 'We kept,' said Fred, 'in sight of Mr. Rush ; and, 

 when the covies were flushed and scattered, we marked 

 down any birds that flew in our direction, or escaped the 

 notice of Mr. Rush and his friend ; and Doctor,' continued 

 Fred, 'we killed more partridges than the party of white 

 men.' 



" 'Did you kill them all on the wing,' said I. 



" 'No sir,' said he, 'I killed three out of pine trees 

 where they lit.' 



'" 'Can you shoot partridges well on the wing?" said I. 



" 'Yes,' said Fred, 'when a covey rises I generally get 

 one' (I know that Fred and Ollis shoot rabbits well). 



" 'How many partridges have you killed this season, 

 Fred ?' 



" 'Six. I was hunting rabbits, and the dogs scared 

 up the partridges and I followed them up and shot them. 

 My dogs never pass a flock of partridges without scaring 

 'em up, and I watch and see where the birds light, and 

 shoot them.' 



"Asbury McShann testified as follows : 'I have killed 

 two partridges this year.' 



" 'Flying,' said I. 



" 'Yes, but they's hard to kill flying.' 



" 'How many times have you shot, as near as you can 

 guess?* 



" 'About a dozen times,' said Asbury. 



"Asbury is a poor boy and has not the ammunition to 

 .-'.pare ; yet he shoots at partridges and wastes his powder 



