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LETTER XV 



PARTRIDGE SHOOTING (PART III) 



PARTRIDGE DRIVING Concluded 



I loir the Shooters should stand for a Drive. Place 

 your friends in a straight line ; it is the only method of 

 insuring safety. If one gun moves up a little closer to 

 the hedge which the partridges are heing driven over, 

 or another moves back, even a few yards, all are at 

 once in danger. The gun to the rear is liable to 

 shoot those more forward of him, when aiming to his 

 right or left front ; and the latter, when killing birds 

 that have passed, may fire into the gun that is 

 slightly behind the line. 



The host for the day should at all times post him- 

 self (he will naturally take a back seat) the last gun 

 at one end of the line ; he can then see in a moment 

 if his friends are in a proper position. If the host 

 considers it advisable to stand nearer to the fence 

 over which the birds are being driven, he can move 



