154 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 
in subdividing his sport over a large number of days, 
especially if he lives from week to week at home for 
the greater part of the year. In this case he will do 
much more good on and near his own estate than he 
who is constantly travelling about, racing or ‘London- 
ising’; but he will be dependent on a different class 
for his guns. He cannot expect men to come and 
assist him in his days of forty or fifty brace, walking, 
who have the choice of other places where they can 
kill 150 brace, driving, unless there are other strong 
reasons to induce them to do so. 
But there is room for all these points of view, and 
I, for one, cannot join those who turn their noses up 
at days of forty to sixty brace of partridges, walked 
up, in pleasant company. It must also be borne in 
mind on the side of the ‘ walker’ that he can enjoy a 
number of days of a perfectly charming sort with two 
or three intimate friends, and without the trouble or 
expense of a large organised party ; indeed, there are 
no days pleasanter than those which are thus spent in 
the pursuit of the partridge, where every beat ona large 
sporting estate is tried in turn. I used to pass many 
such at different places, and nowhere more pleasantly 
than with my uncle, the late Lord Wenlock, at 
Escrick. He and his eldest son, the present Governor 
of Madras, and I shot many a day together, and so 
