I2S SHOOTING THE PHEASANT 



within the hmits of the park, which, however, as it is 

 nearly ten miles round, inclosed by a wall and a ring 

 or belt of covert, and embraces within its ample in- 

 closure some hundreds of acres of arable land, besides 

 pasture, with many detached coverts and spinneys, 

 affords a chance for this method of beating which 

 might be considered exceptional. But to satisfy him- 

 self, and to show others that the management of 

 pheasants on this principle is not dependent on the 

 inclosure of a walled-in park. Lord Leicester on one 

 occasion, instead of driving his birds into the famous 

 ' Scarborough ' clump, put them all, to the number of 

 1,500 or 1,600, over the wall, into an osier bed outside 

 the park, which the great majority of the pheasants 

 could never have seen before. 



This is an extraordinary performance ; but the 

 same great authority is wont to declare that he could 

 drive his pheasants into his billiard-room if he were 

 so minded, and that so long as you guide and push 

 them gently, without springing them, you can do what 

 you like with them. 



Of course, when the birds are once all housed in 

 the clump, a few stops are put round it to keep them 

 in, and the party can then eat their luncheon, and 

 afterwards at their ease take their stands for the rise 

 out of the clump. The ' Scarborough ' clump is only 



