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meet,’ says Leech’s little snob on his hired crock to 
the amiable peer on his thoroughbred hunter. The 
same may be said, above all kinds of other sport, of 
partridge-shooting. Rightly understood, carefully 
protected, courteously and liberally enjoyed, it should 
prove a bond, rather than a bone of contention, 
between all those to whom the plains and the valleys, 
the downs and the uplands of this beautiful country, 
are a profit or a pleasure. 
No work on partridges could be complete without 
some account of the most up-to-date developments, 
and it will therefore be impossible to pass over the 
extraordinary sport enjoyed of late years on the 
estates of Baron de Hirsch in Hungary, which has 
been discussed and wondered at by all the shooting 
world, and in which several of our most prominent 
English shots have taken part. 
Baron de Hirsch has himself supplied me with 
some details, and I am thus able to give a short 
description of his method of partridge-shooting, 
together with the record of last season’s shooting on 
his various beats or estates. 
As my readers are probably aware, the Hungarian 
estates are often of vast extent, and their shooting 
parties have always been conducted on a much more 
extensive scale than in this country, the items of the 
