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and drive down from them, the birds, and then in 

 vales to kill them. Fourthly, when distressed for 

 partridges, in a scarce country at the end of the sea- 

 son, take a horse, and gallop from one turnip field to 

 another, instead of regularly slaving after inaccessible 

 coveys. 



Many an excellent shot has come home with an 

 empty bag, under the following circumstances. He 

 has gone out in a cold raw day, and found that the 

 birds were scarce and wild, and that even in turnips 

 they would not lie. But had he then tried one kind 

 of land, to which almost every man, as well as his 

 dog, has a dislike the fallows, he might possibly 

 have got some good double shots ; because the birds, 

 finding it a misery to run here, particularly if he 

 walked across the fallows, will sometimes lie till they 

 are sprung the fairest possible shots. 



GROUSE SHOOTING. 



THE foregoing observations relative to partridges 

 may be nearly as well applied to grouse shooting, 

 when we recollect that Lord Strathmore's keeper in 

 killing forty -three brace of muir-game before two 

 o'clock in the afternoon, had only bagged three birds 

 at eight in the morning. [This, however, is nothing 

 in comparison to the recent performances of Lord 

 Kennedy, and many others of our first-rate shots.] 



The chief difficulty to be guarded against in this 

 delightful sport is the manoeuvre of the old cock, 



