CHAPTER IV 



PRESERVATION AND MANAGEMENT 



Partridge ground, good and bad Keepers and their work 

 The various systems of modern preservation. 



PERHAPS the simplest way to deal with 

 the questions of partridge ground good 

 and bad, and the preservation and 

 management thereof, will be to take as 

 example an estate without a single ' crab ' 

 to it the sort of place one dreams of 

 sometimes after a good dinner, but never 

 meets with in real life and consider in 

 some detail the leading features and char- 

 acteristics of this earthly paradise. Need- 

 less to say, this gem without flaw is not 

 one which any one can hope to materialize 

 in all respects, but it is the right way to 

 set about things, to set up an unattainable 

 ideal " to hitch your waggon to a star," 



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