372 LETTERS TO YOUNG SHOOTERS LETTER 



plainly marked at their sides with white figures on 

 small black boards) in accordance therewith, and after 

 each drive they will move one shelter to their right, 

 exactly as described at the end of the Second Letter 

 on Partridge Driving. 



If double drives are taken, with two sets of drivers, 

 the shooters will not have time to gather the birds 

 they have killed and change their shelters between 

 the drives, but should move one shelter down the line 

 after every double drive is completed, when leisure is 

 usually given to gather the slain of the two drives. 



If two double drives are taken to the same range 

 of shelters, or four drives in all, this generally means 

 that one stretch of moor is driven backwards and for- 

 wards up to the luncheon hour, and another stretch is 

 driven in the same way to a second range of shelters 

 in the afternoon, or eight separate drives in the day. 



In this case the best arrangement is for the shooters 

 to draw their numbers for the shelters tenanted in the 

 morning, and for each gun to adhere to his shelter till 

 luncheon time, and then to draw once again for the 

 afternoon's sport. 



There is usually an outcry at their bad luck by 

 the shooters who draw the numbers of the flank 

 shelters ; but a flank shelter, if the wind blows towards 

 it across the drive, will frequently obtain as many 

 chances of shots as any others in the line, to the 

 pleasant surprise of its occupant. 



