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There are so many excellent books on killing par- 

 tridges by the aid of pointers, that any remarks of 

 mine under this head would be superfluous. 



Colonel Hutchinson's standard work of forty years 

 ago is just as applicable to us now as it was to our 

 fathers, in all relating to the breaking and manage- 

 ment of pointers, setters, and spaniels, and is far the 

 most exhaustive and practical treatise ever penned 

 on the subject. 



GENERAL ADVICE IN WALKING UP PARTRIDGES 



It often occurs when a line of guns are walking 

 for partridges that the person in charge of the party 

 is too much given to marching his friends up and 

 down the fields, like soldiers at drill in a barrack 

 square. This is especially the case if a keeper acts as 

 commanding officer, his notions of walking up par- 

 tridges generally taking the form that a certain amount 

 of country has to be traversed by the shooters between 

 morning and evening if their legs hold out, and that 

 finding the birds is a mere question of good or bad 

 luck. This is walking up partridges with a vengeance, 

 but is a dull, laborious style of sport, and as the 

 shooters become tired they carry their guns listlessly 

 over their shoulders, and up and away fly the birds 

 just when least expected, and at times escape even 

 being fired at. 



"Whether birds are many or few, walking them up 

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