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moved in one direction, the shooters wheel to the 

 right about, and the flight is again driven from 

 the opposite quarter. No doubt this requires 

 good and very quick shooting, but so does the 

 battue and the pigeon-trap ; and for our own part, 

 we see little difference in these three lazy and 

 luxurious modes of bird butchery. 



The other class to whom we allude, so far as 

 our own experience goes, are far less numerous. 

 They have little sympathy with these massacres ; 

 and, although regarding quick and true shooting 

 as the first requisite, it is no more than the first 

 the A B C of sporting with the gun. 



To feel the superiority of a man of this stamp, 

 you require to see him out over a rugged country, 

 where game is not over plentiful, and when the 

 November blasts have made it wild and wary. 

 The complete self-reliance, caution, and care with 

 which he will give his beautifully trained dogs 

 the benefit of all the best spots to harbour game ; 

 the knowing manner he will approach it when 

 found ; the masterly way he will spring the pack 

 or covey to advantage ; and the exquisitely quick 

 and steady shooting so essential when game 



