CHAPTER VIII 



DRIVING 



The broad rules which govern successful driving The 

 difficulties which arise in their application, and how 

 they can be overcome Beaters, flankers, and guns, 

 their right disposition and duties The cost of 

 driving. 



"... the * guns ' being stationed in more or less 

 concealment at one end of the field, . . . which is 

 entered from the other by men or boys who deploy 

 into line and walk across it making a noise." 



Thus the Encyclopaedia Britannica 

 (Ninth Edition) on the subject of partridge- 

 driving, and the operation sounds as simple 

 as anything well can be ; but that this ease 

 of execution is more apparent than real let 

 any one bear witness who has ever tried 

 to drive partridges on virgin soil, and is 

 hardly likely to have forgotten the diffi- 

 culties and disappointments attendant on 



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