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dispositions ; or the obvious place for the 

 guns may be out in the open without 

 any fence at all handy. Some form of 

 temporary butt or shelter may then be 

 put up, preferably a little time before the 

 shooting ; even then, if there happen to 

 be grazing stock or horses in the same 

 field, these erections will be demolished 

 at once, and then some form of portable 

 shelter must be resorted to. These im- 

 provisations are never wholly satisfactory; 

 they inevitably flap about in a high wind, 

 and having no chameleon-like qualities, 

 must, in unfavourable surroundings, 

 appear to the birds as a somewhat novel 

 object in the landscape ; only they are 

 infinitely better than no cover at all, 

 which is often the only alternative ; for 

 nothing turns birds so quickly as the 

 pallid countenance of man, besides which 

 some freedom of movement, when birds 

 are coming, is essential to good shooting. 

 The shelter illustrated here 1 has the 



1 These screens were supplied to the writer's order by 

 Messrs. Hellis & Sons, 119 Edgware Road, London, 



