Tre AROOSTOOK PARTRIDGE. 
\ K JHERE is the sportsman that fails to enthuse over this 
magnificient game-bird? To begin with he is as 
handsome as a bird can be. ‘*How so! with no bright 
plumage?” ‘*’Tis even so! without the bright plumage.” 
We will leave the bright and gaudy, for the birds we do not 
eat, for we want it not upon our superb drummer partridge. 
And he is so numerous all over our Aroostook wilds, that you 
may find him almost anywhere you roam. And if, when on 
a tramp through our forests, wishing for a delicious broil, you 
should hardly be disappointed, for, from the first farm, or 
clearing, to the limit of your travel, he is ever to be seen. 
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Often in the old logging roads; even in the dense swamps, at 
the foot of the ridges, on the top of them, over the cant of 
the same, getting a drink from his favorite brook perhaps, 
where you may find him always, in the driest weather, and 
during a drought he scarcely leaves the cool shaded brookside 
he loves so well. Handy to the sunny ridges, handy to the 
brook, and the thick evergreen swamp wherein he loves to 
roost. At acertain time in the fall, the flock hardly leaves the 
swamps, finding at this season of the year the food they like 
