FOLLOWING 
THE DEEpT^ 
over the ridge for another southern 
hillside. 
Here, at last, was the secret of 
Wally's boasted skill in partridge 
hunting with a rifle. Spite of my 
indignation at the snare line, the cruel 
death which gaped day and night for 
the game as it ran about heedlessly 
in the fancied security of its own 
coverts, a humorous, half-shamefaced 
feeling of admiration would creep in 
as I thought of the old sinner s cun- 
ning, and remembered his look of 
disdain when he met me, one day, 
with a scatter-gun " in my hands 
and old Don following obediently at 
heel. Thinking that in his long life 
he must have learned many things in 
HUNTING 
