2i8 A SPORTING PARADISE 



he secures his game, if possible, before his faithful 

 cur gets his tooth into it. It might reasonably 

 be supposed that the remainder of the covey 

 would take warning by the sad fate of their 

 comrade and disappear ; but this is not the case, 

 for, charmed by the yelping of the dog, they 

 remain chained to their perches till the single 

 barrel has been again and again loaded and 

 fired." 



It must not be supposed that partridges are 

 easy to kill. A good dog is essential and is 

 hard to get. The birds are exactly the same 

 colour as the branches, and sit so close that it is 

 difficult to make them out. The walking through 

 the bush is very tough, and one requires to keep 

 a sharp look-out and considerable practice to see 

 the birds when they "tree." 



The spruce-partridge frequents the spruce 

 woods. Some consider it a handsomer bird than 

 the other but inferior eating. These birds always 

 "tree," and sit so close that men have been 

 known to noose them with a piece of string at 

 the end of a stick. I was once out with an old 

 Indian and his son, and finding a covey of these 

 birds in a place where stones were scarce he set 

 the old man to cut boomerangs with his axe. 



