220 WITH THE WOODLANDERS. 



ye see I'm sparrer-shootin'. They're a comin' 

 nearer; look at them leaves a movin'. Jack can 

 hear 'em, look at his ears cockin' up. Git down 

 as low as ye can behind the hedgerow. Don't 

 ye hear 'em rustlin' ? I shan't let em get much 

 nearer, for fear o' blowin' 'em to rags and tatters. 

 Look out, now, I'm a-goin' to let drive." Bang 

 went the old single Manton. " I've got 'em ! " cried 

 the boy. 



There was no mistake about it, for a duck's tail 

 showed for a moment, then two feet worked in the 

 leaves and dropped. Before a word could be uttered, 

 duck number two sprang from the leaves and 

 tumbled over dead. "Come on, Jack," said my 

 companion ; " if we stops here, all the lot on us will 

 git transported." 



Charles II. is generally credited with first trying 

 to introduce the French partridge, or Guernsey red- 

 leg, into this country. Why this handsome game- 

 bird should have the adjective French tacked before 

 its name, I do not know, for the bird has a very con- 

 siderable Continental range. It is supposed to have 

 been fairly introduced into some places on the Con- 

 tinent, which, however, claim it as indigenous to the 



