. GROUSE SHOOTING (PART VIII}, 'DRIVING* 371 



Carry a stout ash peg, at least a foot long, with a 

 hole through its thick end to fasten the cord of your 

 retriever or spaniels to ; stamp this into the ground, 

 and such a misfortune as a loose dog during a drive is 

 unlikely, so far as you are concerned. 



Very few retrievers will lie perfectly quiet during 

 a grouse drive, unless secured ; they will whine and pine 

 to be after the birds they see or hear drop to the gun. 



Fasten your dog just outside the shelter, where he 

 cannot be seen by birds approaching (ride figs. 72 and 

 73). If you allow him inside, and he is not specially 

 trained to grouse driving, he is sure to be in the way, 

 either by standing up when he ought to sit down, or 

 by reposing on the bag of cartridges when you require 

 their contents, or by pushing against your legs just as 

 you are about to aim at a difficult bird. 



THE FAIR DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPORT 



In case you are the owner or tenant of a driving 

 moor, you will have to arrange that your friends enjoy 

 equal chances of sport, by moving them in rotation 

 from the flank shelters to the centre ones over which 

 the birds generally fly in the largest numbers. If 

 only single drives are taken, the best plan is to draw 

 lots ; if there are eight shelters, and guns to occupy 

 them, fold up eight small scraps of paper with a 

 numeral written inside each ; your friends will draw 

 their numbers and enter their shelters (which are all 



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