228 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 



Partridges Guns 



6 7 ) 



507 I 6 



583 



564 ) 



2,324 



In the first of these two weeks I was again for- 

 tunate enough to be one of the guns, and can safely 

 say that in both years I never saw such good driving 

 combined with such a high average of shooting. The 

 two totals added together give 4,746 partridges, or a 

 fraction under 300 brace a day for eight days. 



In both 1891 and 1892 these totals for a week of 

 four days' shooting at The Grange were the highest in 

 England. The triumph of this estate where under 

 the present Lord Ashburton the excellent system of 

 management inaugurated by his late father and 

 Marlowe is more perfect than ever is the greater, since 

 Norfolk and Suffolk must still be regarded as the most 

 favourable game counties in England. They are run 

 very hard by Cambridgeshire, and the lighter lands of 

 Essex. In the former county all the properties around 

 Newmarket fetch immense sporting rents, and dis- 

 tinguished members of the Jockey Club, with many 

 other visitors to the racing metropolis, may be seen 



