Of course not, I said. But I didn't know it was like that with pheasants.
It's the same with all game, my father said. Hare deer, partridge,grouse, You name it.
We had been walking steadily for about an hour and a quarter and we were coming to the gap on the hedge where the cart-track led up the hill to the big wood where the pheasants lived. We crossed over the road ang went through the gap.