July 30, 1910.] 
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A bent pin, a 
bit of string and 
a stick don’t ap¬ 
peal as they did 
in our boyhood 
days. Write to 
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Sporting Goods 
Headquarters 
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catching anything from minnow bait 
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THE FRENCH PARTRIDGE. 
Time produces many changes. During the 
last half century the revolution worked by the 
scientist and inventor has not been without its 
effect on various aspects of sport. In nothing, 
I think, is this more obvious than in the relative 
values of the English and French partridge, the 
last few years having completely reversed their 
positions. When I was a boy the French par¬ 
tridge was always regarded as a nuisance and 
an enemy to the sportsman in several ways, and 
any method was employed—fair or foul—for the 
extermination or banishment of the bird from 
the game preserves; it was, in fact, treated al¬ 
most as vermin, and persecuted with the same 
persistency. . . 
The principal reasons given for this universal 
animosity were three: First, the French birds 
were supposed to possess a more pugnacious 
instinct than their English relatives, and being 
also larger and stronger, they were thought to 
be the means of driving the more desirable 
species from their haunts. Second, the French 
birds were of less market value; and third, they 
were of very little use from a sporting point of 
view, owing to their natural habit of running, 
instead of lying to the guns, which the native 
species could generally be relied upon to do. 
Now, taking the last objection first, it is easy 
to understand why, in the good old sporting 
days of pointers and setters and long stubbles, 
a running bird was so very objectionable. The 
excellent cover afforded by stubbles left knee- 
high rendered the use of dogs absolutely neces¬ 
sary, and accordingly no shooting party was 
complete without a brace or leash of pointers 
or setters, as without them a goodly number of 
partridges would probably never be flushed at 
all, especially when they became scattered. It 
was here that French birds undoubtedly did a 
great deal of harm to the dogs, to say nothing 
of the disappointment of the sportsmen. In¬ 
stead of “squatting” when alarmed by the 
presence of the shooting party, they would re¬ 
sort to their natural propensity for running, 
continuing to do so, probably for the whole 
length of the field. At any rate, they would in¬ 
variably rise wild, and more often than not, the 
dogs that had scented, pointed, backed and 
drawn most carefully after their game, would 
not be rewarded by even a sight of the quarry, 
much less the blood which their good conduct 
had so richly deserved. Then again, can we not 
sympathize with the poor, disappointed guns, 
expectant every moment of a rise, on finding 
that the sagacity of their dogs had been wasted 
on a lot of French birds, just disappearing over 
the hedge at the far side of the field? 
Reverting to the effect on the dogs, it is cer¬ 
tain that, should there be many of these birds 
in any neighborhood, the dogs employed in that 
locality would naturally lose confidence in them¬ 
selves, become unsteady, and in many cases 
practically spoilt. It is small wonder, then, that 
the French partridge was looked upon with no 
favorable eye by the ardent sportsman of the 
time. 
Now, however, the methods of shooting 
partridges are entirely changed, and, therefore, 
the faults originally observed in the Frenchman 
no longer matter. Nevertheless, I am of opin¬ 
ion that the majority of sportsmen are equally 
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