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climate Yorkshire here is the record of the best 

 week ever seen on Lord Londesborough's well-known 

 estates in the East and North Ridings. 



I have included the totals of hares and pheasants 

 for this week because they are typical of the country, 

 and valuable as touching upon a point I wish to 

 allude to later on, viz. the killing of hares and 

 pheasants in the fields whilst out after partridges. 



Seamer is close to Scarborough in the North 

 Riding, and Selby between York and Doncaster in 

 the East Riding. This is undoubtedly the best con- 

 secutive four days' partridge-shooting ever known in 

 Yorkshire. There is no other estate in that county 

 which produces such totals, whether capable of doing 

 so or not ; and I may add that for many years past 

 driving has been the exclusive practice on the 

 Londesborough property, and that the ground is, for 

 the most part, rarely shot over a second time. 



