168 GA^IE PEESERYERS AND BIRD PRESERVERS. 



mies' country, a little too far off, or going a little 

 too fast to suit liis friend, lie makes a mental 

 resolution to remember to forget to invite him 

 next season. 



The fact is, that tame-reared pheasants are 

 exactly as difficult to shoot as wild-bred birds. 

 Ours always joined the wild birds before 

 November, and we never found any difference. 

 It is the place where they have constantly fed 

 in security, more than the person who feeds 

 them, which gives them confidence; and the 

 same birds which would still come to om' feet 

 in September if we called them at the spot 

 where they were reared, could not be induced 

 to come near us if we met them only four 

 hundred yards off, ' whistled we never so 

 kindly.' 



We are quite sure the pheasants never 

 suspect the presence of their kind quiet friend 

 the keeper, among the party of noisy demons 

 who have invaded then- stronghold. As it is 

 their nature to do, they hide in the dense cover 



