100 lewis' AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. 



feet, plant your broad back against the chimney, look sullen, 

 kick the Dogs, and go to sleep as soon as possible. Or, if it 

 suits you better, walk up and down the room for an hour at a 

 time, making the whole house shake and tremble with your 

 heavy tread, scolding, and staring out of the windows, every 

 few moments, to see if the lowering clouds are blowing away, 

 or to halloo after the hostler or farm-hands, whenever you espy 

 them about the premises, demanding their opinion as to the 

 state of the weather, which, nine times out of ten, will be very 

 cheering. Such, for example, as, "Well, I can't say, sair; it 

 looks pretty black out in this 'ere direction." "Indeed, it's 

 very hard to tell, sair ; but it sometimes clears up when the 

 wind shifts around to that 'ere quarter ;" pointing to the west, 

 and the wind still blowing a perfect gale from the east. 



GOOD AVEATHER. 



In fair weather. Partridges will be found out in the stubble, 

 clover, or cornfields, near to a hedge or some other cover. 

 If a buckwheat patch be in the neighborhood, it of course 

 must be visited; for, if there be any Birds in those parts, 

 they will most likely be about this field in preference to 

 all others. As we have stated before, they are very partial to 

 this kind of grain. Partridges generally feed until eleven or 

 twelve o'clock, and are then either quiescent for an hour or 

 two, or resort to some favorite watering-place, or gravelly 

 bank, where they scratch and pick themselves while basking 

 in the sun. We have often found them at this time, on the 

 sunny side of the trunk of a fallen tree, in a fresh clearing, and 

 always make it a point to hunt around all such places, more 

 particularly if a purling stream should be in the vicinity. 



HINTS FOR THE SPORTSMAN. 



It behooves the Shooter at this hour of the day to desist for 

 awhile from his labors, and refresh himself as well as his 

 Dogs with a little quiet, and a small snack of something to 

 eat and drink. He need not be fearful of wasting time by 

 this trifling suspension of his sport, as both himself and 



