CHAPTER XL 



CHATS ABOUT PHEASANTS. 



MOST keepers have what they call feeding 

 places for their pheasants, in the woods ; 

 so have I, but I feed rather differently to most 

 keepers. They usually have bare spots in the 

 wood, and on these spots they throw down the 

 corn for the pheasants to come too. I have 

 seen these places as clean as a cottage floor, 

 for, being so perfectly bare, the birds can see 

 every grain, and nothing is lost. 



The keeper comes whistling to the birds at 

 these spots, at the same time strewing the 

 corn, and up come the pheasants like a lot of 



