212 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 
partridges are the main desideratum. I append the 
ground-plans and description of two such preserves, 
made last year at Sandringham, and furnished by 
Jackson, the head keeper, which I am able to re- 
produce and publish in this volume by the gracious 
permission of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
These could not, I think, be improved upon, the 
only criticism I could make being that the centre 
ride in No. 2 preserve does not appear to have any 
practical value, and might, one would, imagine, be 
more usefully employed as cover or crop. Whether 
or not they would answer better if wired in cannot 
as yet be said, as, up to the moment of writing, the 
results of the first season after laying them out are 
not to hand. 
There is one more point with regard to stock 
which must not be omitted. I mean the insane and 
much too common practice of killing down the game 
near the boundary. This jealousy or mistrust of your 
neighbour defeats itself. If the land on your boundary 
is favourable to birds, it will draw them from your 
own centre as fast as you kill them off. If it is not, 
constant pursuit will the more readily drive those 
which you do not kill on to your neighbour’s centre. 
The boundary beats of your property should be 
carefully preserved, and lie very quiet, though there 
