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well, and in a way that we in England would call sports- 

 manlike ; but some, even amongst the gentry, have rather 

 too much an eye to the " pot." Indeed, I well remember 

 hearing a very distinguished Swedish jagare, and a great 

 ally of my own, somewhat boastfully relate, that on one 

 occasion, when his dog pointed at a juniper bush, where he 

 had reason to believe a recently flushed covey of Partridges 

 had taken refuge, he fired at random into the midst of it, 

 and at a single discharge killed no less than eight of the 

 number. It is hardly fair of me, however, thus to " show 

 up " my friends ; because I myself, when hard pressed 

 for game, have occasionally been guilty of acts that could 

 not with propriety be " proclaimed on the house-tops." 

 Various wiles are, at times, resorted to in the Peninsula 

 by the gunner to circumvent the poor Partridge. When, for 

 instance, the covey is so wild as to be unapproachable, he 

 will fire a charge of perforated slugs into the midst of it ; 

 the whirr of which so alarms the birds as to cause their 

 instant dispersal, when, as a matter of course, they become 

 much more accessible. 



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Then, again, he makes use of the so-called Rapphons- 

 or Partridge-pipe, depicted above. This usually 

 consists of a tailor's thimble, open at both ends. A 



