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they were therefore removed, from a fear that he might tread 
upon or neglect them. 
Partridges 
Generally speaking, the Partridge is a much shier bird than 
the Pheasant, and though we have found it, in the above case, 
quitting its own species to live with another, it can seldom be 
induced to lay aside its natural habits and become quite tame. 
Occasionally, however, by great care, they have been known 
to attach themselves to man. 
In a clergyman’s family, one was reared, which became so 
familiar that it would attend the parlour at breakfast, and other 
times, and would afterwards stretch itself before the fire, seeming 
to enjoy the warmth, as if it were its natural bask on a sunny 
bank. The dogs of the house never molested it, but unfor- 
tunately it one day fell under the paws of a strange cat, and 
was killed. 
The Partridge, as is well known, usually builds in corn-fields, 
where, undisturbed amidst a forest of tall wheat-stems, it rears 
its brood. Like other birds, it sometimes, however, chooses a 
very different sort of nursery, as, for instance, a hay-stack, on 
the top of which a nest was once formed, a covey hatched, and 
safely carried off. 
In England we have but one sort, but in Prance, and other 
