WALKING UP 



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If carried out as in fig. 1 2, the result will never be 

 so good, since it is the outside man who does all the 

 work, and who, creeping ahead next the fence, turns 



FIG. ii 



the birds inwards after they are on the wing, and who 

 is heard by those that have not risen, which con- 

 sequently make away from the danger. He must 

 keep very close to the fence, and if the flanking 



FIG. 12 



operation is of vital importance, he should be a 

 ' gun ' rather than a beater. 



A story is told of the late Sir Henry Stracey, who, 

 being a complete type of a ' British officer and gentle- 



