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HUNTING EXPENSIVE SPORT IN FRANCE High pfices for game followed the recent opening of the hunting season in France In place of the usual large crowds only a few elderly sportsmen left Paris on hunting trips Cartridges for such use cost six times as much as before the war and there are heavy taxes to pay Consequently the first lots of game offered at Paris markets were skyhigh A consignment of ten partridges was sold for 30 A brace of rabbits cost 1050 while pheasants brought 4 apiece
