230 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 



Stetch worth, Babrahain, Ickworth, and Culford, 

 with many another fair manor within the triangle 

 of country which lies between Cambridge on the 

 west and Thetford and Bury St. Edmunds on the 

 east, testify, by the rents they command, to the 

 magic value which the nurture of the little brown 

 bird can bring to the land. Beyond, to the east, 

 Elvedon and Merton, Riddlesworth and Wretham, 

 Henham, Benacre, Sudburn and Rendlesham keep 

 up their records, while past Lynn or Norwich, 

 Sandringham and Houghton, Gunton and Melton 

 lead you still farther north, to where, under the 

 November moon, the earliest woodcock, making for 

 Swanton Wood, dashes his weary breast against the 

 light of Cromer, or the rare hooper, drifting with the 

 snowstorm from the Arctic Circle, finds his first rest 

 under the walls of mighty Holkham by the North 

 Sea. 



Dear as all this region is to the shooter's heart, 

 favoured by soil and bracing air, there is many 

 another county in England and Scotland where he 

 for whom the partridge affords the favourite form of 

 sport can find material in plenty ready to his hand. 



In Scotland, Wigtown long ago matched, with 

 Lord David Kennedy as champion, against Norfolk 

 and Mr. Coke Kirkcudbright and Dumfries, Rox- 



