. GROUSE SHOOTING (PART VIII\ 'DRIVING' 373 



FLAGS 



The flags carried by the drivers soon wear to pieces 

 if not properly made. The best method of construct- 

 ing the flags is to be seen in fig. 74 ; they then have 

 no ends that can flap into rags with the wind, and 

 though they require double the amount of linen, they 



FIG. 74. FLAG 



;;;.) i<>u THK USK OK THE MEN WHEN- 

 DRIVING GROUSE. 



The flag consists of a piece of linen 4 ft. 6 in. long by 2 ft. broad, the ends 

 being scwrd t>g-ther. This is then slipped down the slit sawn in the 5-t't. 

 and -f<-ured from shifting by a piece of twine passed tlirough a hole, 

 own above. 



will last six times as long as the ordinary flags nailed 

 to sticks, and can be removed for washing or mending 

 in a moment. The drivers may be given red flags, 

 the flankers yellow, and the pointsmen white, for by 

 varying the colours in this way you can at once detect 



