316 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



heather which are habited by certain broods of 

 grouse, and on which these birds nest, feed, and 

 roost, the neighbouring hills and valleys, though no. 

 distance off, being rarely visited by them. 



Now, the drivers should not endeavour to induce 

 the grouse that haunt one tract of heather to fly to 

 another tract that may be strange to them ; the birds 

 should be driven on their own ground and kept on it, 

 and the lines of shelters should be laid out to intercept 

 their flight as they fly from one part of their ground 

 to another part ; for this is the main idea of driving 

 grouse. 



Eemember that the drivers cannot drive the 

 grouse on a moor just to suit the convenience of the 

 shooters ; all they can do is to send the birds in a 

 direction they are more or less willing to fly in, and 

 the shelters will have to be placed accordingly. 



The best way to discover the natural flight of 

 grouse on a moor is to walk it in line with half a 

 dozen men on a calm day, and you will soon learn to 

 what quarter the birds incline when on wing, and 

 how far they maybe forced towards any desired point. 



As a simple example of this, you will find, if you 

 walk along a valley, the grouse will follow its course 

 when flushed, and either alight on the flat between 

 the hills or a short distance up their sides ; erect 

 your shelters, then, across the valley so that the 

 birds may be driven over them, first from its one 

 end and subsequently back again from the other. 



