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arm round her—pretty tight—and you couldn’t 
have put a sheet of tissue-paper atween her 
head and his shoulder. 
“I’m supporting your daughter, Sir Anthony,” 
says he, “in a position a good deal higher than 
ever she’s been accustomed to—fifty or sixty 
feet higher, in fact!” 
And Sir Anthony groans, with his face as red 
as a turkey-cock: "Oh, hang it, man, take 
your blighted epidemic off my moor! Switch 
the plague on to old Snapper’s moor, and give 
me a chance to get even with him, and you 
may go on supporting her till the week but one 
after Doomsday!” 
With that, young Dunkin tugged and pulled 
at the steering gear in the delirium of his 
triumph till it fetched loose, and the rudder 
swung round so violently that it jammed firmer 
than ever at the other side, so that the dirigible 
circled in the opposite direction in a new orbit 
over old Snapper’s moor. It kept all old Snap¬ 
per’s birds down for eight hours until the petrol 
was exhausted—old Snapper had been ex¬ 
hausted with swearing long before that—while, 
after a time, the birds on Sir Anthony’s moor 
began to get up a bit, and he finished up the 
day sixty brace ahead, which so pleased him 
that he gave the young folk his blessing on the 
spot. They were married last week, and young 
Mrs. Dunkin says young Dunkin hasn’t any 
further use for the dirigible.—W. Carter Platts, 
in The Shooting Times. 
FRENCH PARTRIDGES. 
Probably there is no game birds in the whole 
universe which has had more unkind things 
said about it than the red-legged or French 
partridge, which, of course, is quite a different 
bird in almost all its ways from the indigenous 
species—the “little brown bird” for which every 
sportsman has a tfue affection, although noth¬ 
ing delights him better than killing it! 
The whole of the trouble that the “red leg” 
has got himself into began with the fact that 
he is a most tiresome bird to flush, especially 
in thick cover, and a long period of residence 
on British soil, generally in close company with 
the gray bird of more seemly habits, has failed 
to teach the red leg proper manners. 
The latter still much prefers to seek safety 
by running, to using its wings, especially when 
dogs are employed to find it. For that reason 
it was never so popular with gunners as the 
gray partridge, and time was when determined 
efforts were made on not a few manors to ex¬ 
terminate the Frenchmen, whose habits were 
not conducive to steadiness in the behavior of 
Ponto and Shotover. When both French and 
English birds were found in the same field the 
peripatetic tactics of the former led to the dis¬ 
turbance of the latter, so that in the end the 
gunner frequently found it impossible to get 
within shot of either species. 
By many the red leg has been accused of 
having brought about the practical abandon¬ 
ment of the once popular custom of shooting 
birds over dogs. But it is at least open to 
question as to whether this serious charge can 
properly be laid at the Frenchman’s door. 
Other things, at least, have tended to the disuse 
of pointer and setter for partridge shooting, 
among them the comparatively modern method 
of sowing turnips and other farm crops in 
straight well-ordered “drills,” or rows, instead 
of “broadcast,” in the older manner. It is ob¬ 
vious that birds will not lie so well in a drilled 
crop as in one that is sown in broadcast fash¬ 
ion, hence the greater impossibility of getting 
near them by “walking up” either with dogs 
or without. 
Again, the old-fashioned sickle, which used 
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cornfields—at any rate in the days when straw 
was less valuable than it is to-day—has been 
replaced by the close-shearing reaping machine, 
which cuts off the crop so close to the soil 
that not enough cover to shelter a field mouse 
is left behind. Even if the red leg had never 
been brought to England, shooting over dogs 
would probably have gone out of fashion sim¬ 
ply on account of the changed methods .of 
sowing and harvesting. 
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