efreshments, if they care to do so.

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=Gentlemen who go down into a County= for a few days' hunting only
seldom wear "pink," and prefer riding to hounds in black coats.

The members of the hunt wear pink as a matter of course, but it is
considered better taste for a stranger to wear a black coat than to
appear in a _new_, _very new_, unspecked red one.

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=Sporting Terms.=--Persons unversed in matters appertaining to "country
life" and "country sports," town bred, and who have had little or no
opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of the subject from personal
experience, can hardly fail to commit many and various mistakes when
brought into contact with sportsmen and their sports.

A knowledge of sporting matters and sporting terms, and the etiquette
observed by sportsmen, is only arrived at by associating with those
thoroughly conversant with the subject, and with whom "sport" has formed
part of their education so to speak.

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=The Shooting Season commences= on the 12th of August with grouse
shooting in the north of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Partridge
shooting commences on the 1st of September and terminates on the 1st of
February.

The finest partridge shooting is allowed by general consent to be found
in the eastern counties.

Partridge driving does not take place until January to any great extent.

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=Pheasant Shooting= commences the 1st of October and terminates the 1st
of February.

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=Hares= may be shot up to the 1st of March.

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=Rabbits= may be shot all the year round.

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=Rooks= are shot during the spring and summer.

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It is difficult to make a would-be sportsmen comprehend the strict
etiquette maintained between the owners of manors; that is to say, he
would think nothing of crossing the boundary of his host's manor, "gun
in hand," if he felt inclined to follow a bird or hare he had wounded,
oblivious of the fact that, in the first place, the greatest
punctiliousness is observed between gentlemen in the matter of
trespassing on each other's land when out shooting; and, that unless the
greatest intimacy existed, a sportsman would hardly venture to pick up
his dead