"It had been a hard day in the fields, for the birds were wild and wary. And when we drew up our chairs around the fire, after supper, it was with a sigh of relief to get our boots off. B told about how the old cock partridge had dodged behind a cedar, just about as soon as he got up from the covert; while P told of his surprise when he flushed a bird, and it fell to a shot from a thicket close by, just as he caught sight of it, and was just about...