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tin' srttin-fj sun in the evening; thus the fields and 

 hedges on the sunny side of a wood are the ones to 

 drive with a view of sending your pheasants back 

 again. Whether the birds are young or full grown 

 they should be constantly driven in, particularly 

 towards dusk. If you are lucky enough to have grain 

 fields surrounding a wood, the birds that belong to it 

 will not go far ; but anyhow, check their inclination 

 to roost out of the wood ; to this end' beat in the 

 hedgerows and any fields with thick covert towards 

 the woods the birds belong to. Do not spare your 

 legs, but take a wide sweep round the country. A 

 couple of spaniels are invaluable for bustling phea- 

 sants homewards. 



The oftener pheasants are frightened back to the 

 woods the less apt are they to leave them, and the 

 readier will they be to hasten to their shelter if dis- 

 turbed when wandering about the fields, whether they 

 chance to be on your own land, or that of some one 

 else 1 A keeper should, without fail, drive in any 

 birds that are inclined to stray down a slope; a 

 pheasant will run downhill to any distance, but it is 

 always difficult to drive him home uphill. 



THE FEEDING OF YOUNG PHEASANTS 



The elaborately prepared foods for feeding young 

 pheasants, and the * patent medicines ' for curing 



