lS2 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 



can have is to show that you have made the most 

 of your opportunities without interfering with your 

 neighbours. 



Some mention must lie made, in a work of this 

 kind, of the method of shooting partridges with the 

 aid of an artificial kite. I cannot say much in favour 

 of it, although I think that the objection most fre- 

 quently urged against it viz. that it drives birds off 

 our ground does not, except on very small properties 

 or shootings, carry much weight. But as we are now 

 discussing the small and unpretentious manor with our 

 friend B., who is the most likely person to make 

 use of it, I would venture to point out one or two 

 other things. 



That it gives very poor, poking shots, and is a 

 strictly pot-hunting class of sport, nobody can deny ; 

 but the excuse generally pleaded for it, that when 

 cover is scarce and an organised drive may be, from 

 lack of men or means, impracticable, birds cannot be 

 got at any other way, is, to my thinking, inadmissible. 



There is no prettier art than driving partridges to 

 one or two guns, with only three or four drivers ; and 

 any one who has experienced the pride one feels in 

 taking home fifteen brace of birds secured in this way 

 on ground circumscribed in area and not too plenti- 

 fully stocked, will agree with me that this is the way 



