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requirements, the guns in a partridge 

 drive have often to make the best of 

 indifferent cover and a limited field of 

 view. On the other side, it may be 

 placed to the advantage of partridge- 

 driving that its operations are not quite 

 so much at the mercy of the wind. On 

 a moor, if the long sweeping drive of the 

 morning, which is intended to collect the 

 birds for the shorter drives of the after- 

 noon, is adversely affected by a wind 

 from the wrong quarter, the rest of the 

 day may quite well be completely spoilt ; 

 but in the more limited sphere of opera- 

 tions in the arable country, it is very rare 

 that the fate of the whole day can turn 

 on the result of a single drive. 



A long purse can undoubtedly simplify 

 the problems of partridge -driving ; un- 

 fortunately it is equally the exception. 

 If you happen to be a millionaire, and 

 can afford to farm half your ground your- 

 self, arrange to have other land cultivated 

 to suit the shooting, plant belts to drive 

 the birds over, and make remises wherein 



