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Time." About one generation has passed 

 away since the first signs of the approaching 

 change, and the process contemplated by 

 " The Northern Farmer " with such horror 

 has become general " the huzzing and 

 muzzing of the blessed fealds " is rampant 

 in the land, so the fascination of shooting 

 over dogs has well-nigh departed except 

 in some few favoured districts. Years come 

 and go, and fresh faces appear, and the old 

 days have vanished, but it is pleasant in 

 these modern days to hark back and rumin- 

 ate over the methods adopted in the departed 

 days of our forbears in the pursuit of the 

 partridge. Our ever-beloved Sir Roger de 

 Coverley netted them, and netting with setters 

 was continued down to the end of the Nine- 

 teenth Century, and a good description of 

 the plan adopted may be found in the 

 "Sportsman's Dictionary or Country Gentle- 

 man's Companion." Then came the flint 



