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If partridges are not present in cover and you are 

 only a small number of guns, you will have to walk 

 the stubbles or other likely fields yourselves (not 

 omitting the fallows and ploughs if the soil is sandy), 

 in order to drive the birds towards some shelter in 

 which they will lie to the gun. 



But the most killing method is to utilise a few 

 men or boys three will drive a very large stubble 

 to walk the fields on each side of the one you are 

 about to shoot over. These drivers should work a 

 xhnrt distance ahead of, in fact almost parallel with, 

 the guns all day on either hand, and the birds they 

 drive off the stubbles and grasses will then fly into the 

 fields containing cover just as the shooters commence 

 to walk through them. You thus approach the birds 

 before they have collected together, Or made up their 

 minds to run back to the open. 



On no account permit the men who are driving 

 the stubbles to walk ahead of the guns in the after- 

 noon, or the birds will slip out of the fields of cover 

 they have been driven into and return to their feeding 

 grounds, before the shooters can reach the locality at 

 which they alighted. 



If a number of partridges are likely to be driven 

 into a field of roots, you will be more successful if you 

 drive the stubbles on one side of it first, shoot what 

 birds you can, and then drive in from the other 



