xni. PARTRIDGE SHOOTING (PART /), ' WALKING' 213 



four brace of birds to the bag, when a covey that has 

 been untouched may remain so, from the time of day 

 being too late to follow it with success. 



The gist of this is 



1st. Walk your partridges at first downwind 



irds any cover they naturally frequent, chiefly in 

 order to disperse them. 



2nd. Walk the birds against the wind back to the 

 ground they were previously driven from, so as to 

 obtain shots at them. 



3rd. Do not desert the ground you have beaten in 

 the morning, if it still holds a fair amount of birds, to 

 seek for fresh birds in the afternoon, as you will do 

 better by retracing your steps and walking against 

 the wind over the land you walked downwind in the 

 earlier part of the day, for though you may not see 

 so many partridges as you did the first time over, you 

 may nevertheless easily kill more, owing to the number 

 of single birds you are likely to obtain chances at. It 

 is the invariable habit of partridges to seek their old 

 ground, and very shortly, too. If you flush a covey 

 of ten in a field in the morning, and kill a brace, 

 you will probably find the remaining eight in just the 

 >ame spot if you return to seek them in the afternoon, 

 and are pretty certain to find them in their original 

 quarters the following day. 



4th. Though you may find plenty of partridges 

 in the root crops during the morning, do not f.i-pi-i-t to 

 find them there after three o'clock, unless, as of course 



