CHAPTER X 



STATISTICAL 



Some records in Britain Partridges abroad Austria, 

 Hungary, and Belgium. 



INSEPARABLY connected with any real 

 interest in such shooting as you may be 

 fortunate enough to possess, is a pardon- 

 able pride in the results of your labours, 

 as figured in the columns of your game- 

 book. Yet while the records of your 

 shooting cannot be disregarded altogether 

 lies not the proof of the pudding in 

 the eating thereof? at the same time, 

 their pursuit is fraught with danger, 

 insidious danger that the mens sana in 

 corpore sano to the furtherance of which 

 admirable balance all our field sports 

 should tend, else they are without purpose 



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