200 PRANK SCHLEY'S PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANT SHOOTING. 



the game from below, and drive them up hill, and you will 

 have a better chance of shooting them, and marking them, 

 than by advancing upon them down hill. When shooting 

 in a long, narrow strip of wood or thicket for Pheasants, 

 Partridges, Woodcock, Eabbits, or the like, and you have 

 a companion, one should walk on each side and outside of 

 the cover. The dogs should go inside. You should keep 

 in line and in sight of each other. If one fires both must 

 stop and stand still. Make the dogs do the same. When 

 the gun is reloaded, go and pick up the game and bag it, 

 after which go on as before. On coming up to the end of 

 the thicket, or woods, and you have reason to think the 

 dogs missed a Eabbit or a Pheasant, or the like, try it again, 

 go back on your tracks slowly, and give the dogs plenty 

 of time. When shooting in a wood, or thicket, with a com- 

 panion, keep in line of each other and in sight. Be always 

 on your guard, and always ready to fire, but at the same 

 time you should be cautious and watchful how you handle 

 your gun and how you shoot, for when you least expect 

 you may accidentally shoot yourself or friend. When still 

 shooting in the woods or thickets for game, keep a sharp 

 lookout, not only for the game, but for anything uncommon 

 among the surrounding ol)jects that strikes your attention. 

 Walk along noiselessly, in the most open places, select out 

 the softest jilaces, avoid loose stones and brushwood, or any- 

 thing that will betray your steps. Dx) not leave a hole or 

 nook unsearched by your glance. Notice the waving of 

 one branch in particular, when all others are quiet, the 

 slightest rustle of the leaves, the disturbed sui-face of a itool, 

 the fresh breakage of a branch, the falling of a green leaf, 

 or an upturned dead one, everything must be noticed, even 

 from the faintest sound, to an alarmed chatter of a l)ird. 

 Nothing should be passed unheeded by the sportsman il he 

 wishes to fill his game bag. 



