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before they will stir, provided you do not 

 stand and gaze on them, but be in continual 

 motion, otherwise they will spring up and 

 begone. There is another way to discover 

 them, and that is by going to their haunts 

 early in the morning, or the close of the 

 evening, which is called the juking time, and 

 there listen for the call of the cock partridge, 

 which will be very loud and earnest, and after 

 some calls the hen will answer, and by this 

 means they meet together, which you will 

 know by their rejoicing and chattering one 

 with another ; then take your range about 

 them, drawing nearer and nearer to the 

 place where you heard them juke in, casting 

 your eye towards the furrows of the lands, 

 and so take them as your fancy shall lead 

 you. 



The best, safest, and easiest way of find- 

 ing partridges, is by the call ; having first 

 learned the true and natural notes of the 

 partridge, knowing Ixnv to tune every note 

 in its proper key, and applying them to their 





