n8 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 



Of course, in driving you must shoot sooner, if you 

 mean to try and kill two in front of you, than you need 

 or ought to shoot at a single bird. You may kill four 

 birds out of a covey, but to allow you to do this they 

 must either be streaming, so to speak, in column, with a 

 long distance between the first bird and the last, or 

 they must break up on clearing the fence and fly more 

 or less round you, and it must be early in the season, 

 when they fly slower. To kill, late in the year, four 

 birds out of a covey that comes straight over your 

 head, all more or less abreast and with any pace on, 

 is to my thinking impossible ; I have never seen it 

 done, and never expect to. 



