2S FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



made serviceable in the old ilint-lock u'uii or muzzle- 

 loader of any kind. 



This instigation to robbery on the part of the 

 men to their sons and boys, is sure to increase with 

 ilia increase ofhreech-loadiiKjyunSj for at times the 

 cartridges so stolen Avill have a value besides the 

 amount of powder and sliot contained in them, as 

 old breech-loaders will be cast aside and become 

 of common use anion o^ thieves, and cartridires and 

 poachers may surreptitiously come together. 



Grrant, of St. James's Street, has made a bag for 

 cartridges with lock and key, and to him I would 

 refer my readers for anything of a similar kind. 



The breed of partridges has of late signally 

 failed, and failed from some acute disease ; this 

 has nothing whatever to do witli mere atmospheric 

 effects, or the weather. I sj^eak from close j^i'^^- 

 tice and personal suj^ervision. Very early in 

 the breeding seasons, as soon as the young par- 

 tridges were able to fly, when the covey rose, 

 one, two, and three or four young birds were ob- 

 served by me to drop very soon, and to be unable 

 to fly as far as the rest of the covey. When next 

 I saw the coveys in which this inability to continue 

 the flight existed, these birds were missing, and 



