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corn-fields are adjacent, or where grows 

 broom, brakes, fern, or any covert what- 

 soever. In the harvest time, when every 

 field is full of men and cattle, then you may 

 find them in the day-time on the fallows next 

 adjoining to the corn-fields, where they lie 

 lurking till the evening, when they feed 

 amongst the shocks or sheaves of corn ; and 

 so they do likewise early in the morning. 



When you know their haunts according 

 to the situation of the country and season of 

 the year, your next care must be to find 

 them out in those haunts, which is managed 

 several ways : some do it by the eye only, 

 and this art can never be taught, but must 

 be learnt by frequent practice; distinguish- 

 ing thereby the colour of the partridge from 

 that of the earth, and perceiving how and 

 in what manner they lodge and couch to- 

 gether ; for which purpose you may come 

 near enough to them, as they are a very 

 lazy bird, and so unwilling to take the wing, 

 that you may even set your foot upon them 

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