x. PHEASANT SHOOTING (PART I) 169 



The great principle of showing pheasants high 

 and fast to the guns is to drive the birds away from 

 home at first, and then beat them homewards later 

 on the shooters invariably standing so as to intercept 

 their line of flight back to the woods they belong to. 



Nothing will turn aside a pheasant flying from a 

 distance to the covert he roosts or is fed in, especially 

 if he is coming downwind. 



