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"I expected they'd be frightened and all fly away after the first shot." "That's the way with spruce pa'tridges," explained Skipper Zeb. "They has a wonderful foolish way with un. They don't fly when you shoots. They're so tame you could almost knock un over with a stick.
"When we comes back from goin' with Dad to his path." "Where are we going now? We're not going the way we came." "I'm takin' a short way through the timber. We may see some pa'tridges." They walked for a few minutes in silence, when Toby, who was in the lead, suddenly stopped, and examined the snow at his feet.
He stood leaning against the casing, watching her floury hands at their deft work. "He come here, not ten minutes ago," said Charlotte, "after your Uncle John. He had a gun. I never see Isr'el Tenney with a gun. 'Pa'tridge shootin, he said. Pa'tridges, when you can't see your hand afore you in the woods! I told him Uncle John'd gone up to the hut.
"A fule's journey!" remarked Old Amos sententiously, with a wave of his pipe; "a fule's journey!" The Ancient cast an observing eye up at the cloudless sky, and also nodded solemnly. "Theer be some fules in this world, Peter, as mixes up rabbits wi' pa'tridges, and honest men like Jarge wi' thieves, an' lazy waggabones like Job but we'll show 'em, Peter, we'll show 'em dang 'em!
Presently the cliffs receded into sloping hills, covered with a forest of spruce and tamarack, and here they turned into the forest along the slopes, where walking proved much easier, though still more difficult than Charley had expected. Suddenly some birds arose with a great whir of wings, and alighted in a tree. "Spruce pa'tridges!" exclaimed Toby.
He had three rabbits in a game bag slung over his shoulder, and he was hesitating as to whether or not he should visit the fox traps or heed Toby's warning to turn back, when he was startled by a flock of ptarmigans, or "white pa'tridges," as Toby called them, rising at the edge of the marsh. The partridges flew a short distance out upon the marsh, and alighted upon the snow.
"Now what do you think about killing hen partridges in summer?" "We can kill pa'tridges, can't we?" asked David. "We always eats un, and you said we could kill un." "But we've got to use our heads about it," Doctor Joe explained. "I'm talking now about hen partridges in summer. They always have broods of little partridges then.
Tenney," she said, "what you round with a gun for, this time o' night? You can't see nothin'. It'll be dusk in a minute." "Pa'tridges," he called back to her, adding darkly, "I guess I can see well enough, come to that." Charlotte stood there watching him out of the yard and noted that he turned toward home.
"When Bud leaves licker alone thar hain't no better boy nowhars. When he follers drinking he gits p'izen mean right down to ther marrer in his insidest bone. Folks calls him ther mad-dog then. Ef these men finds out he's drinkin', they'll quit work an' scatter like pa'tridges does when they sees a hawk flutterin' overhead." The loose-jointed giant turned on his heel and left Brent standing alone.
May I carry your shotgun when I go?" "Aye, carry un. You may be pickin' up some pa'tridges." In accordance with this arrangement, Charley visited the rabbit snares and the fox traps alone the next morning, and returned quite elated with his experience, bringing with him three rabbits that he had found in snares and four spruce grouse that he had shot.
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