148 GAME PEESERVERS AM) BIRD PRESERTERS. 



many parts of England where tliey are^now 

 never seen. 



The partridge is perhaps as numerous in 

 many parts of England as it well can be ; but 

 a sad change has come over it. The change 

 in our system of cultivation has changed its 

 habits, and it no longer gives us the sport with 

 dogs which used to constitute the charm of 

 partridge shooting. This cannot possibly be 

 helped, and we must accept the situation and 

 make the best of it. 



Partridges must be driven in most of our 

 counties, and let those who ridicule the sport 

 come and show us how to kill them. There 

 is no such difficult shooting, and more shots 

 are fired with less result at driven partridges 

 than at any other game in any part of the 

 world. 



A very great mistake, which several gentle- 

 men make, we believe, is that it is an injury to 

 a breed of birds to kill the old birds. 



The French, who quite eclipse us in making 



