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grey birds, one very weak gun in the team. Fifteen 

 to eighteen short drives each day. I got 340 the first 

 day, my best drives, 42, 62, 74. Another good gun 

 would have made a difference of 600 in the week.' 



It will be observed that the guns were only seven 

 during this week, whereas at Holkham they were eight 

 and ten. Taking the two teams all through, the 

 form would not show much difference, there being 

 two or three first-rate guns in each. 



A second week at The Grange in the same year 

 on four different beats yielded 2,604 birds to six guns. 

 Adding the totals of the two weeks together, you get 

 6,713 partridges, or an average of 420 brace per day 

 for eight days, the big week yielding by itself an 

 average of over 500 brace a day for the four days ! 



The best week at The Grange in 1891, a bad 

 breeding year, yielded only 1,432 partridges for the 

 four days to six guns, of whom I was one. The two 

 best weeks of 1892 were as follows : 



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