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after the hare ; it must know how to retrieve, and still point well. 

 These are great demands, but they are often fulfilled. 



A bag" of partridges varies very much. Twenty brace must be 

 considered very good ; ten or twelve may be called an average bag 

 for two to four guns. 



It is about thirty years since pheasant-breeding was started in 



Denmark. When it was seen how well this foreign game thrived 



and stood the climate, many landed proprietors 



Pheasants. 

 followed the example, and these handsome birds are 



now pretty numerous in many different parts of the country, especi- 

 ally in the southern part of Zealand, in Funen, and Langeland, 

 where they are bred in such quantities, and on so many properties, 

 that they spread thence to the adjacent lands. 



The bags of a single shoot are not to be compared to what is 

 killed at a shoot in England ; in a few places, eight or Usual Bags 

 nine hundred birds are obtained at from two to three 

 days' shooting, but generally speaking the result is much smaller. 



The shooting of wild ducks and geese, as well as a quantity 



of different kind of waders and water-fowls is, owino" 



' Wild Fowl, 

 to the natural conditions of the country, its many 



fjords and islets, and its low foreshore, with large stretches left 



dry by the ebbing tide, very satisfactory in Denmark. 



Duck shooting commences on July the 15th, and is carried on either 



from a boat on the lakes, or along reedy shores, or, later in the 



summer, the sportsman hides himself and waits in the 



Duck. 

 evening for the ducks, when the birds fly inland from 



the sea to bogs or smaller ponds. Several of our water-fowl are 



