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LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



It will be seen the drivers are approaching the 

 guns in a line, the left end of which (as viewed by the 

 shooters) is much advanced. 



This is termed < holding the birds up/ as it is 

 evident, unless their natural inclination to do so is 

 checked, the partridges here will fly with the wind over 



FIG. 47. (EXAMPLE 6.) 



Small circles are the guns posted for the drive out of (A, B). ftmttJl nrroirx are 

 the drivers sending the birds off (A) and (B) over the guns to (C ). /Y<v/.s are 

 the three flankers, walking well ahead of the drivers. T/irre crofxex are the men 

 acting as stops to head the birds as they fly into (C), and thus influence them 

 to settle and remain therein ready for the return drive from (C) to (A, B). 

 (irnnc points in the direction the wind blows from. 



the guns at the left corner of (A) only ; and perhaps, 

 instead of passing on to (c), for a return drive, they 

 may break away to ground on the left where there are 

 no fields of cover, or from whence they cannot be 

 driven back to the shooters. 



The flankers are also sent well forward on the left, 



