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' driving moor,' and the current expenses of the 

 former are always much below those of the latter. 



The moor that can be shot with pointers or setters 

 gives, besides, a longer term of sport in the autumn 

 than is the case with a driving moor though it does 

 not of course find shooting for near so many guns 

 a great deal less trouble in the arrangement of its 

 shooting, and as much or as little exercise as its owner 

 or tenant is inclined for. 



On a moor that is adapted to the use of pointers 

 and setters (in Scotland usually, rarely in England), 

 as when the heather is high, the ground broken, 

 and the birds fairly tame, you cannot dispense with 

 their assistance ; for you may walk all day without 

 their aid and not shoot, or even see, a tenth of the 

 number of birds that a brace of good dogs would have 

 found for your gun in one hour. Now, under these 

 conditions, there is a real pleasure in working well- 

 trained dogs. You are unable to kill the birds 

 without them, and as they find the game and produce 

 your sport there is interest and excitement in their 

 every movement, for, the more perfectly your dogs 

 are broken to their work, the better the sport to be 

 obtained, and the more the inducement to the shooter 

 to take an interest in their education, and subsequent 

 behaviour in the field. 



The second system, or walking the birds up without 

 first finding them with pointer or setters, is almost 



