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leg, but was pooh-poohed by all the 

 wiseacres in the neighbouring county 

 of Norfolk, where the leading lights of 

 the shooting world continued to walk 

 their birds in line, long after driving was 

 a common practice across their borders. 



At first the guns used to stand under 

 the hedge with their backs to the drive, 

 and shoot at the birds only after they 

 had passed ; this made shooting very 

 awkward (as any one knows who has 

 had occasion to try it through the 

 exigencies of the line compelling him 

 to stand right up to a fence which he 

 could neither see over or through), and 

 the chief objection urged against driving 

 was the difficulty of hitting the birds. 

 Then some one discovered how far easier 

 and more effective it was to face the 

 drive, take what birds he could coming 

 towards him and swing round after the 

 others, and the better results thus obtained 

 gradually led to a general adoption of 

 the new system. 



In considering partridge-driving, some 



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