PARTRIDGE 



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PARTS OF SPEECH 



of any one of their number, and each is liable 

 for any debts contracted by a partner in the 

 transaction of the general business. Partners 

 may not use the general funds for their own 

 benefit, and are responsible for a strict account 

 of all expenditures in the firm's name. 



The members actively conducting the busi- 



ness are known as the real, or ostensible, part- 



M. mbers whose relation to the firm is 



not publicly known are called secret, or dor- 



. partners; the latter take no part in the 



management. Silent partners take no 



e pajt in the business, but share in the 



liabilities and the profits. Nominal partners 



assist in the business, but receive no share of 



the profits. 



Dissolution. A partnership may be dissolved 

 by agreement, by operation of law or by ju- 

 dicial decree. Any unlawful action of the firm 

 legally dissolves the association. Any change 

 in membership effects a dissolution of the part- 

 ip. and if business is continued it must be 

 under new articles of agreement. At disso- 

 lution the debts of the firm are paid first, then 

 the capital is distributed; if all this is insuf- 

 ficient to meet the debts, the latter are paid 

 out of the personal property of the members. 

 A liquidating partner is one chosen to take 

 charge of the settlement of the business. 



Consult Parsons' A Treatise on the Law of 



PARTRIDGE, pahr'trij, a name applied 

 loosely in America to a number of game birds 

 belonging to the grouse family. The bird 

 known as the partridge in the southern part 

 of the United States is called quail, or bob- 



Canada Grouse 



Bobwhite 



T\VO MEMBERS OF Tin: FAMILY 



whit i , m ill-- North and the East (ace QUAIL). 

 '/ grouse (see GROUSE, subhead Ruffed 

 > rallnl partridge in New England, 

 i ml thr Canada grouse is called wood, < 

 ami spruce partridge by Canadians. 



The true partridges are found in the oa.-tmi 

 hemisphere, and include about 150 species. 

 The common gray, or Hungarian, partridge 

 is typical of the group; this bird has been 

 imported into America in large numbers for 

 breeding purposes. It is found throughout Eu- 

 rope, especially in Great Britain, and occurs 

 also in Northern Africa and Western Asia. 

 The largest of these partridges is about a foot 

 long. It has ash-gray plumage on the upper 

 parts of the body, with brown and black mark- 

 ings, and the male has a distinguishing crescent - 

 shaped spot of deep chestnut on the breast. 

 Grains and insects are sought as food ; the nest 

 is laid usually on the ground, and contains from 

 twelve to twenty eggs. The Hungarian par- 

 tridge is a favorite game bird in Europe. 



Consult Sandys and Van Dyke's Upland Game 

 Birds; Job's Propagation of Wild Birds. 



PARTRIDGE, WILLIAM ORDWAY (1861- ), 

 an American sculptor, art critic and lecturer. 

 One of the delights of his artistic life i 

 present in marble and bronze the busts of the 

 world's greatest poets. Included in his well- 

 known series are the busts of Shakespeare, Mil- 

 ton, Byron, Tennyson, Burns, Poe and Edwin 

 Markham. 



Partridge was born in Paris. He was edu- 

 cated at Columbia University, New York City, 

 and studied sculpture in Florence and Rome. 

 His first large work of note was the fine bronze 

 statue of Hamilton, erected in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 That city possesses another great monument 

 to his art an equestrian statue of General 

 Grant. In 1894 he completed a statue of 

 Shakespeare, which was unveiled at Lincoln 

 Park, Chicago. Among his most popular books 

 are Art /or America, The Technique oj Sculp- 

 ture and Song Life of a Sculptor. 



PARTS OF SPEECH, in grammar, are classi- 

 fications of words associated according to their 

 use and meaning. Such a division of words in- 

 to classes is not arbitrary, or invented mere I y 

 for convenience; words themselves present nat- 

 ural divisions, and grammarians have n.. 



n names to the classes. There are in all 

 eight parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjec- 

 s verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunc- 

 tions and interjections. 



Certain of these classes are closely related 

 to each other; for instance, a noun is often 

 used for an adjective, as in "a gold rinp." 

 or an adjective for a noun, as in "We j>n\ 

 poor !>-fotru. too, frequently takes the 



e of a noun, in such sentences as 'To go 

 will be the wisest policy." "To hare done 



