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LETTEE XIV 

 PARTRIDGE SHOOTING (PART II) 



PARTRIDGE DRIVING 



the winter draws near, the roots in which par- 

 tridges found shelter early in the autumn are either 

 cleared off the ground by the farmers to feed their 



:k with, or else their leaves are so shrivelled by 

 frost or beaten down by storms that they no longer 

 afford sufficient concealment for the birds to lie in to 

 the gun. 



Though you may see plenty of partridges late in 

 the season, yet, however perseveringly you tramp /the 

 fields, you may nevertheless fail to obtain sport in 

 anything like proportion to the number of birds that 

 are present on the ground you walk over. 



It is true that even in November you can send 

 partridges off the stubbles and meadows into any root 

 lield near that still exists, however thin its foliage, 

 but as to obtaining many shots therein that is unlikely, 

 ie birds are sure to run forward when you try to 

 approach them, and rise out of shot, though if <///*/// 

 to the shooters every bird in the field may be forced 

 t<> tly within range of their guns. 



