Soon, however, he warmed up to his work, and his illustrations to Mr. Anstey's inimitable "Voces Populi," "The Man from Blankley's," and other of that writer's serials, made their mark at once, supported as they were by the "socials," signed now with his cipher, now with his quaint "perdix fecit."
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Change of perdix to a partridge.
"The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II"
Ovid
And to this day, when summer breezes 25 blow and the wild flowers bloom in meadow and glade, the voice of perdix may still sometimes be heard calling to his mate from among the grass and reeds or amid the leafy underwoods.
"Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year"
E.C. Hartwell