102 FIELD SHOOTING. 



often go for the hedges, and then a great deal 

 may be done with a gun on each side of the 

 hedge while the dogs are beating it. One man 

 cannot do much with- the quail when they take 

 this refuge. Some of these hedges are eight or 

 ten feet high; others have been so trimmed as 

 to be four feet through and thick of growth. 

 With a man on each side of the hedge there is 

 very pretty shooting. If you are out without a 

 companion, and the quail take to the hedges, you 

 may trust one side to an old, well-trained dog, 

 and take the other yourself. Always send the 

 dog to the lee side. If you have a companion, 

 and he leaves to you the choice of sides, as most 

 men will do, not knowing that it makes any differ- 

 ence, always take the windward side. By so doing 

 you will get three or four shots to your com 

 panion's one when the wind is blowing athwart, CT 

 nearly athwart, the hedge. The reason is very 

 simple, though seldom thought of. The dog to lee- 

 ward winds the quail in the hedge, and, as a mat- 

 ter of course, puts them out on the windward side ; 

 while the scent is blown away from the dog on 

 your side. I have been out with men who did 

 not understand this, and they would say, " Cap- 

 tain, what the d 1 makes almost all the quail fly 



