PARTRIDGE SHOOTING ON THE MARSHES 



ROUGH shooting of 

 2200 acres, all told, some 

 two -thirds of which con- 

 sist of dyke and fleet 

 intersected marshes, is 

 not a manor about 

 which one can boast very 

 much perhaps. Never- 

 theless, my three shoot- 

 ing partners and myself 

 manage not only to 

 obtain many an enjoy- 

 able day's sport thereon, but some very pretty little 

 mixed bags to boot, including partridges, duck, snipe, 

 hares, rabbits (a few), and " various " ; an occasional 

 rare species of duck or wader being included under the 

 latter heading. 



For upwards of ten seasons have we hired our little 

 manor at a rental, which, to those readers who rent a 

 large and well- stocked partridge manor, would doubtless 

 appear absurdly small. True, the place lies " seven miles 

 from anywhere," and the accommodation at the marsh- 

 land homestead cannot by any stretch of imagination 

 be described as palatial. But then, of what moment 

 are such details to men in the prime of life, who have 

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