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weather; the enthusiasts who shoot on the adjacent 

 ground will drive many of their birds on the wings 

 of the gale over to yours for you to pick up the next 

 day, if line, when your neighbours are probably on 

 the sick-list from colds and rheumatism. 



"When about to start on a day's grouse shooting, 

 the tirst thing to consider is the direction of the wind, 

 and to begin on that side of the ground towards which 

 the wind blows from over your boundary ; you thus 

 keep the birds at home by driving them away from 

 the march across which they might otherwise have 

 passed to the next moor. In the case of a small 

 moor, the wind is always a consideration in regard to 

 the starting point for a day's shooting, and even with 

 a large one the various beats will have outskirts, and 

 should be walked according to the wind, or inwards 

 from their boundaries. 



If there is no wind you should begin to shoot on 

 the boundary, and work inwards just the same, only 

 in this case you can commence at any part of it you 

 wish. 



The whole system of working a moor with pointers 



tters is to drive the grouse off the high land in 



the morning, and break up the broods, obtaining what 



shots you can, and then to follow up the birds, and 



kill them, when dispersed about the low ground and 



