172 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 
man’ of the old school, was wont to conduct the 
shooting at Rackheath, his place in Norfolk, as much 
as possible on military lines. Calling to his keeper, 
as they entered a large turnip field full of birds, to 
halt the line, he announced that he wished this field 
beaten en échelon. ‘Very good, Sir Henry,’ was the 
response, and then with his hand to his mouth in 
stentorian tones the keeper shouted, ‘Now, all yew 
beaters, Sir Henry he dew wish yew to take this here 
field on the re-ound.’ 
Whether he knew the superiority of the ‘re-ound’ 
formation, or merely meant it as the best popular 
translation into Norfolk language of the word échedon, 
history does not relate. But a line formed on the 
‘re-ound’ is most certainly better under almost all 
circumstances than ez échelon.! 
What is called ‘half-mooning’ is a system of walk- 
ing up partridges that merits more notice than it 
seems to receive, and for October shooting ought 
to be, to my thinking, universally adopted where 
practicable. But it demands large fields, well-drilled 
men, and very careful shooters. It used to be carried 
to great perfection by Lord Leicester, at Holkham in 
Norfolk, where I fancy it was invented, and where 
1 On referring to the Badminton Library, I am glad to find 
myself in accord with Lord Walsingham on this point. 
