xiv. PARTRIDGE SHOOTING {PART II\ ' DRIVING' 245 



When driving with a fair wind, or straight against 

 the wind, the drivers should advance in a half-circle 

 (with flankers forward of each extremity of the line), 

 as in Example 3. Of course, driving birds with a fair 

 wind is the A B c of partridge driving, and you can 

 almost put them through a hoop. 



EXAMPLE 6. (Fio. 47, NEXT PAGE) 



THE DUTIES OF THE ' DRIVERS,' THE ' FLANKERS,' 

 AND THE MEN WHO ACT AS ' STOPS ' 



The drivers are the men who, as they walk in line 

 towards the guns, flush the birds off the fields. 



The flankers are employed to keep the birds, when 

 on wing, within the limits of the drive, so that they 

 may fly over the guns. 



The men who act as stops are posted at a distance 

 behind the guns, to check the birds from flying too 

 far, or to keep them, when they alight, inside the 

 cover that will next be driven to the shooters ; these 

 stops, though not generally employed, are also most 

 useful in causing birds to drop into a field indepen- 

 dently instead of in coveys. 



In Example 6, on the next page, we have a plan of 

 a partridge drive, showing everyone in position. 



(A B) are two fields of roots side by side, (c) is 

 another field of cover, towards which the birds are 

 being driven. 



