252 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



These tufts in a hedge can be kept in order by a 

 keeper, and, if clipped and twisted into shape, will 

 gradually grow into excellent shelters for the guns, 

 and can be arranged along some fence that is gene- 

 rally a favourite one to drive partridges over. (See 

 fig. 48.) 



The perfection of partridge driving is not over 

 hedges, but over narrow belts of tall firs, as to be 



Fiu. 48. PAKTIUDGK Dnivixu. 

 Shooter standing behind a natural shelter grown in a low hedge. 



seen, for instance, in the district round Swaffham, 

 Brandon, or Thetford, in Norfolk; every bird is then 

 a high rocketing shot ; and sometimes they look no 

 larger than sparrows or bumble bees, as a friend of 

 mine once declared they appeared to his view when 

 coming over one of these belts of high trees. 



