216 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 



CHAPTER VI 



SOME RECORDS AND COMPARISONS 



I HAVE several times alluded to Holkham in the 

 preceding chapters, and to Lord Leicester's admirable 

 management of game. Probably no estate in all 

 England has such a game record as this. From the 

 wild goose to the rabbit, nearly every fowl or beast 

 which the sportsman can desire has been killed there, 

 and their habits and natural history, as well as the 

 best method of securing them in a scientific and 

 sportsmanlike manner, have been studied by the 

 members of a family who for several generations have 

 been known as representative types of English sports- 

 men. 



Situated as it is, near Wells in Norfolk, on the 

 northernmost point of that celebrated game county, 

 overlooking the North Sea, with nothing between 

 it and the ice-fields of the Pole, it seems, with 

 its huge park and ample acreage, its woods of 



