228 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 
Date Beat Partridges | Guns 
Nov. 1 Chilton. ji ‘ 670 
ign 22 Abbotstone 5 . 507 6 
» «3 New. House 4 0 583 
» 4 Itchen Down. - 564 
Total . 2,324 
In the first of these two weeks I was again for- 
tunate enough to be one of the guns, and can safely 
say that in both years I never saw such good driving 
combined with such a high average of shooting. The 
two totals added together give 4,746 partridges, or a 
fraction under 300 brace a day for eight days. 
In both 1891 and 1892 these totals for a week of 
four days’ shooting at The Grange were the highest in 
England. The triumph of this estate—where under 
the present Lord Ashburton the excellent system of 
management inaugurated by his late father and 
Marlowe is more perfect than ever—is the greater, since 
Norfolk and Suffolk must still be regarded as the most 
favourable game counties in England. They are run 
very hard by Cambridgeshire, and the lighter lands of 
Essex. In the former county all the properties around 
Newmarket fetch immense sporting rents, and dis- 
tinguished members of the Jockey Club, with many 
other visitors to the racing metropolis, may be seen 
