. The American sportsman: . en to shun his company and detest J THE PARTRIDGE. 87 his vices. Perhaps our readers may think we have portrayed abeing so base, so low, as seldom or never to be met with, exceptamong those mercenary scamps who shoot for the markets. Butrest assured, my gentle friends, that the picture is not overdrawn,for there are dozens of just such fellows in every shooting commu-nity; and perhaps we can even find some such among our ownsporting acquaintances, who hesitate at nothing to fill their bags,in season or out of season, and, in reality, practise in secret theopen and a
. The American sportsman: . en to shun his company and detest J THE PARTRIDGE. 87 his vices. Perhaps our readers may think we have portrayed abeing so base, so low, as seldom or never to be met with, exceptamong those mercenary scamps who shoot for the markets. Butrest assured, my gentle friends, that the picture is not overdrawn,for there are dozens of just such fellows in every shooting commu-nity; and perhaps we can even find some such among our ownsporting acquaintances, who hesitate at nothing to fill their bags,in season or out of season, and, in reality, practise in secret theopen and avowed motto of the professed pot-hunter. We havemet with such characters, and doubt not but our sporting friendshave done the same, and perhaps been alike distressed and morti-fied at their behavior in the field. When caught, however, withsuch would-he sportsmen, we have but one course to pursue—re-sign the field for the day, or take our dogs and quietly put off inanother direction to pursue our sports solitary and FURTHER HINTS. We shall now enter upon some particulars more familiar to thepractical sportsman, and in which he will take especial interest,and no doubt feel competent to compare our observations withthe results of his own experience, and thus be able to judge of thetruth and importance of our information, not only to himself, but 88 lewiss AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. to the young tyro. In compiling tliis work, it is our earnest de-sire to bring the young sportsman forward so rapidly in all thatrelates to the crafts of the field, that, with a little industry andordinary attention, he may, in the second season of his debHf,possess the same skill in hunting and bagging game as it wouldhave required five or six years of regular apj^renticeship for himto arrive at. As before stated, partridges are formed into coveys, and aresufficiently large to shoot, in the month of October, which is thetime appointed by legislative enactments for the killing of thisgame in several
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