PARTRIDGES AND 

 PARTRIDGE MANORS 



CHAPTER I 



IN DEFENCE OF THE PARTRIDGE 



The case for game preservers Interests of sport and 

 agriculture in this case mutual Economic value of 

 sport to rural communities A plea for a right 

 understanding. 



" LAND by the square mile is thrown away 

 in profligate extravagance upon stags and 

 pheasants and partridges, and is doled out 

 with miserly greed by the foot for the 

 habitations of men, women and children." 

 This is not a statement of fact far 

 from it it is merely a quotation from the 

 famous pulpit speech of the Chancellor of 

 the Exchequer in the year of grace 1910, 

 a speech which the Rev. J. Campbell 



