96 FRANK SCHLEY'S PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANT SHOOTING. 



hunt out the wood patches, and the driest places you can 

 find on high ground. In cold and windy weather, instead 

 of hunting the bleak high ground, in thin open cover, go 

 in thick cover, in swamps, briars, and grass patches, and 

 in warm southern exposed hillsides, and in hollows where 

 the rag-weed stands the highest. It will be here you will 

 meet with the best success. In dry, hot weather, cease 

 hunting the dry open wheat stubbles, tiring your dog and 

 exhausting yourself, but go where the ground lies the low- 

 est in swamps, marshes, and along creeks and ditches 

 which are grown up with weeds, grass and bushes, in moist 

 and cool places. If the ground is covered with snow 

 abandon entirely the open fields,-and go into woods, thick- 

 ets, swamps, clearings, second growth wood and briary 

 wood skirts, and hunt out the briar patches and high 

 weeds and brush piles, in the corners of the fields and worm 

 fences, and look well to creek banks where there are 

 patches of bare ground, and southernly grown up hill sides, 

 and thick sedge grass cover; here you will stand the best 

 ohance of finding your game. 



