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meet,' says Leech's little snob on his hired crock to 

 the amiable peer on his thoroughbred hunter. The 

 same may be said, above all kinds of other sport, of 

 partridge-shooting. Rightly understood, carefully 

 protected, courteously and liberally enjoyed, it should 

 prove a bond, rather than a bone of contention, 

 between all those to whom the plains and the valleys, 

 the downs and the uplands of this beautiful country, 

 are a profit or a pleasure. 



No work on partridges could be complete without 

 some account of the most up-to-date developments, 

 and it will therefore be impossible to pass over the 

 extraordinary sport enjoyed of late years on the 

 estates of Baron de Hirsch in Hungary, which has 

 been discussed and wondered at by all the shooting 

 world, and in which several of our most prominent 

 English shots have taken part. 



Baron de Hirsch has himself supplied me with 

 some details, and I am thus able to give a short 

 description of his method of partridge-shooting, 

 together with the record of last season's shooting on 

 his various beats or estates. 



As my readers are probably aware, the Hungarian 

 estates are often of vast extent, and their shooting 

 parties have always been conducted on a much more 

 extensive scale than in this country, the items of the 



