DRIVING 289 



The cost of driving varies beyond all 

 power of striking any average. The rent 

 of partridge land may be sixpence or 

 three shillings an acre, the figure being 

 often determined by considerations quite 

 foreign to the actual shooting it affords. 

 Accessibility, social amenities, the popu- 

 larity of a district, all help to influence 

 the rent. 



But in every case it is clear that 

 economy and efficiency are closely allied, 

 and the shooting accounts should be kept 

 in business-like fashion, however generous 

 the scale of expenditure. In a quiet 

 district it might be reckoned that a shoot- 

 ing affording six days of fair driving would 

 cost about 500 a year, but any such 

 estimate must be an uncertain guide ; 

 nor is it possible to give any details of 

 expenditure without laying oneself open 

 to severe criticism from those to whom 

 the figures did not happen to appeal. 



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