It kills best on windy days in general, with the cow-dung fly, and partridge hackle.
The other is made with grey and red partridge tail mixed for wings, a copper brown peacock harl body, and a dark brown red hackle off a cock's neck for legs.
The wings are made from a feather out of the wing of the partridge or woodcock, the body with a bittern's feather, and the head with a little of the brown part of hare's fur.
I almost always took my gun with me when I went after the old cow, and hardly ever missed bringing home a partridge or a squirrel, which your grandmother would cook for our dinner next day.
But the partridge happily escaped from three well-loaded barrels, and we never saw more either of her or her companions.
A dog we doubtless had, and he was large enough for all useful purposes; for he trotted through the rye with the composure of an elephant, and did spring a partridge from her nest.
The pin-partridge had, of course, come out of Noah’s Ark, and in the course of some terrible adventures had lost a leg.
At this moment David heard an irregular kind of hopping noise coming down the passage, and, just as he turned to look, the pin-partridge ran between his legs.
Then there came a dreadful silence, and you could have heard a pin-partridge drop.
The pin-partridge trembled so violently at this that he fell off the roof altogether, quite forgetting that he could fly.
So on the third night he took the pin-partridge to bed with him, in the hope that it would keep him just awake enough, by pricking him with the head of its pin-leg.
I’m glad the pin-partridge isn’t here scratching us all.
Oh, let me in,’ he shouted, feeling like the pin-partridge on the ark.
The pin-leg was rather longer than the wooden one, which made the partridge lean a little to one side, as if it was listening to the agreeable conversation of the animal next it.
Carefully he began raising up the pole until it was higher than the head of the partridge nearest the ground.
Still he comes, for now I remember I only had shot for partridge in that gun.
In another place the feathers strewn around showed where a fox had been too quick for Frank and had taken the partridge which had been caught.
Partridge was directed to deliver him to the custody of the marshal of Essex, or, not meeting him, was requested to bring him to Salem, and hand him over to the magistrates there.
She had understood from Miss Partridgethat he was delicate; and he looked it.
She answered this by another slight inclination, while he continued: "The Misses Partridge asked me to say that they would be glad to see you, if you could ever make it convenient to go over.
The concluding sentence contains what Partridge would call a non sequitur, for the finest musical sensibility may coexist with the most commonplace qualities.
There is a shade of submissiveness in her reply, yet, on receiving it, he felt as a falcon might feel if a partridge were to shew fight.
The king was hunted as a partridge in the mountains, and though the hounds have been hanged, yet the hunters were as guilty as they, and deserved no less punishment.
The chief things to shoot are a big black partridge (which will soon be extinct) and a little brown dove, later on there are snipe, and already there are duck, but these are unapproachable.
There is a large black partridge to be shot here which is very good to eat.
The Terrapin was constantly going about whistling and showing his whistle to the other animals until the Partridge became jealous, so one day when they met the Partridge asked leave to try it.
So the Terrapin let him have the whistle and the Partridge walked around blowing on it in fine fashion.
She stood quaking like thepartridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
They had gone on in this manner for some time, and having been tolerably successful in their sport, were meditating their return to the party on the beach, when the ear of Gerald was arrested by the drumming of a partridge at a short distance.
When the partridge which has just come out of the egg sees the shadow of the hawk flit by and crouches motionless as a leaf, the partridge is not acting upon any knowledge which it has acquired in the few minutes since it was hatched.
They are much employed throughout the Puna to hunt the "yutu," a species of partridgewhich inhabits the rushy grass.
I knew they were performing what is called the 'Partridge Dance;' and as I had never witnessed it I held back awhile, and looked on.
I'll put a stuffed partridge on the top of a post, and practise at it, beginning at a short distance, and lengthening it by degrees.
Admitting this to be the case, is not a good fox or mink skin worth ten times as much to the trapper as a partridge or rabbit is to the dollar man?
In the morning for breakfast we will have bear steak, boiled partridge and buck-wheat cakes.
A partridge country should be as open as possible; then you can see your dogs work, which, in my humble opinion, constitutes the greatest charm of shooting.
A partridgemanor is not one quarter the expense of pheasants and coverts.
I am obliged to content myself with a partridge manor; and, after all, I believe I like partridge and snipe shooting better than any other.
Nine o'clock is quite early enough for the partridge or grouse shooter; about four in the afternoon is the most deadly time, because scent then begins to ascend, and the dogs catch it much quicker, and birds are then on the feed.
Game is not moving very early; therefore, inpartridge shooting, dogs have not such a chance of finding game as they have an hour or two later.
In taking a partridge manor, ascertain first, by going over it yourself, if there is a fair head of breeding stock on the ground.
A partridge manor, to have a good head on it, though, must be well looked after, the vermin kept down, and your keeper with a sharp eye to all poachers and suspicious characters.
If they are not in easy circumstances, they must go very cautiously to work; but that fair partridge and general shooting is to be had at a moderate figure I can prove.
In May and June I always keep a lot of light broody hens ready to sit, for during the mowing season many partridge nests are cut out.
I had it for some years, and I never enjoyed covert shooting so much; there was fine partridge ground all round the forest, which I had leave to go over; part of it was mine.
I may, of course, be misjudging a cricketer whom I have never seen play, but everything would seem to suggest that Partridge will develop into nothing more exciting than the average county cricketer.
The sudden glimpse of some great mountain towering above the trees; the velvety green, billowy moss; the merry little brooks they crossed; the whirring flight of a startled partridge and now the sinking sun flooding the silent woods with gold.
But when the stolen chicks Are fledged, they straightway fly away to seek Their proper kin, and leave the partridge there Forsaken.
The partridge lays no eggs, Nor builds a dwelling; but instead, she steals The well-wrought nests of others.
