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grey birds, one very weak gun in the team. Fifteen 
to eighteen short drives each day. I got 340 the first 
day, my best drives, 42, 62, 74. Another good gun 
would have made a difference of 600 in the week.’ 
It will be observed that the guns were only seven 
during this week, whereas at Holkham they were eight 
and ten. Taking the two teams all through, the 
form would not show much difference, there being 
two or three first-rate guns in each. 
A second week at The Grange in the same year 
on four different beats yielded 2,604 birds to six guns. 
Adding the totals of the two weeks together, you get 
6,713 partridges, or an average of 420 brace per day 
for eight days, the big week yielding by itself an 
average of over 500 brace a day for the four days ! 
The best week at The Grange in 1891, a bad 
breeding year, yielded only 1,432 partridges for the 
four days to six guns, of whom I was one. The two 
best weeks of 1892 were as follows :— 
Date Beat Partridges | Guns 
Oct. 4 Dunneridge F - 600 
sie oti Swarraton . é 7 670 6 
» 6 Stoke. é . 7 569 
ae Totford . : : 583 
Total | 2,422 
