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with the introduction of the breech-loader 

 for game shooting, driving was adopted. 

 This plan of killing game could not have 

 been practised with the muzzle-loader to 

 any great extent ; but directly it was found 

 that with the new weapon a man could get 

 many more shots at a driven covey than he 

 could at one rising in front of him, partridge 

 shooting was revolutionised, and dogs i.e., 

 pointers and setters were no longer looked 

 upon as necessary ; indeed, they are now, I 

 am afraid, except in rare cases, relegated to 

 the limbo of things useless and unfashion- 

 able. Was it not Mr. Stuart- Wortley who 

 lamented that in average partridge shooting 

 the pointer could no longer be employed, 

 because he has become unfashionable, and 

 unnecessary to the large and carefully 

 organised parties which go in for killing 

 five or six hundred brace in a day by an 

 entirely new process? Now this is the 



