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gather that number, you may offer your aid to a friend, 

 who may have more birds to retrieve than you had. 



But if you counted a score as having fallen to your 

 gun, alicai/s look for an extra bird or two when you have 

 retrieved your twenty ; you will usually find them, if not 

 yours, perhaps those killed by a neighbour, and w r hich 

 neither of you marked down in the excitement of the 

 drive. 



After each shooter has picked up all his birds, or 

 thinks he has, it is interesting to watch a keeper stroll 

 pa>t the range of shelters with his old retriever, and 

 perhaps find quite an average of a brace of dead birds 

 t<> every gun. 



Count audibly to yourself the birds you see 

 <l,)il>lt> up to your shot, and which you know must fall, 

 though you cannot see them do so without twisting 

 round ; and then afterwards seek for them according 

 to the direction of the wind during the drive. 



If the wind was strong with the birds in their flight, 

 they will have flown fairly high, and hence you will 

 not find our in a score in front of your shelter, how- 

 ever far from or near you they were killed, but about 

 20 yards Mi ml it! 



If the wind was strong against the grouse driven 

 to you, they will have skimmed low over the heather 



hey approached you, and you will find those you 

 kill chiefly from 10 to 15 yards in front of, or on either 

 side of your shelter, and very few behind it. 



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