THE FIELD FROM THE ARCHIVES
Since powder and shot were first used by our ancestors in the pursuit of various kinds of fowl, an evergreen topic for gunroom gossips has been the relative merits, as sporting birds, of grouse, pheasants and partridges. That the argument can have no end is obvious, but we shall probably continue to expend our own breath, and the whisky of our several hosts, in more or less vain comparisons of these three species until there is no game – or, perhaps, no whisky – left.
It is principally for this reason that I have attempted an analysis of
