38 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 
“ ‘Tock Lodge’ owns a dropper and shoots partridges; 
tells me he shoots every day for two or three hours, when 
he stops for dinner. 
“‘Tke 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.’ 
“EHlyine, 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 
spare; yet he shoots at partridges and wastes his powder 
