216 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 
CHAPTER VI 
SOME RECORDS AND COMPARISONS 
I HAVE several times alluded to Holkham in the 
preceding chapters, and to Lord Leicester’s admirable 
management of game. Probably no estate in ail 
England has such a game record as this. From the 
wild goose to the rabbit, nearly every fowl or beast 
which the sportsman can desire has been killed there, 
and their habits and natural history, as well as the 
best method of securing them in a scientific and 
sportsmanlike manner, have been studied by the 
members of a family who for several generations have 
been known as representative types of English sports- 
men. 
Situated as it 1s, near Wells in Norfolk, on the 
northernmost point of that celebrated game county, 
overlooking the North Sea, with nothing between 
it and the ice-fields of the Pole, it seems, with 
its huge park and ample acreage, its woods of 
