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Due acknowledgment should here be 

 made of assistance received in compiling 

 these pages ; especially would the writer 

 confess his indebtedness to the Duchess 

 of Bedford for courteously supplying the 

 notes on foreign partridges at Woburn 

 Abbey in Chapter II. ; to Mr. C. Ailing- 

 ton for the valuable information and ad- 

 vice in his letters ; to Mr. G. W. Taylor 

 for allowing him the benefit of a wide 

 knowledge and experience by revising and 

 correcting the chapter on Driving ; and, 

 finally, to the many kind and ready 

 contributors of the notes in Chapter V. 



partridge nests should escape attention altogether." In 

 a text-book of to-day this sentence would have to he re- 

 worded, and would then read, " Certainly it is hest that 

 no partridge nest should escape attention altogether." 



