THE COMMON PARTRIDGE. 
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“ The bet between Mr William Coke and Lord 
Kennedy, was for 200 sovereigns a-side, play or paj', 
who shot and bagged the greatest number of par- 
tridges in two days sporting ; both parties to shoot 
on the same days, the 26th of September 1823, and 
the 4th of October in the same season. Mr William 
Coke to sport upon his uncle’s manors in Norfolk ; 
and Lord Kennedy in any part of Scotland he pleased. 
The result of Mr Coke’s first day’s shooting was 
eighty and a half brace of birds bagged. On Satur- 
day, October 4, Mr W. Coke took the field soon af- 
ter six o’clock in the morning ; he was accompanied 
by his uncle, T. W. Coke, Esq. M.P., and by two 
umpires ; Colonel Dixon for Mr Coke, and F. S. 
Blunt, Esq. for Lord Kennedy ; also by two of his 
friends. Sir H. Goodrich, Bart., and F. Hollyhocke, 
Esq. He was attended by several gamekeepers, 
and by one dog onl)', to pick up the game. Several 
respectable neighbouring yeomen volunteered their 
services in assisting to beat for game, and rendered 
essential service throughout the day. Mr Coke 
sported over part of the Wigton and Egmere manors. 
The morning was foggy, and the turnips were so wet 
that the birds would not lie among them. Very little 
execution was done, in consequence, in the early part 
of the day; in the two first' hours only six brace of 
birds were bagged. The day cleared up after eight 
o’clock, and the sportsman amply made up for his 
lost time. He found birds plentiful among Mr 
Denny’s fine crop of turnips on the Egmere farm, 
