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vastly increased if you are working in a 

 country where grass-fields abound and 

 turnips and stubbles are few and far 

 between. Your birds are then fewer 

 and harder to find, and you cannot well 

 afford to pass on and leave a big lot of 

 birds behind you ; on the other hand, the 

 field of your operations is vastly increased 

 when a mile is the normal distance 

 between turnip-fields ; your lunch is at 

 some farm - house perhaps nearer two 

 miles than one from where the bulk of 

 the birds have gone, and it will indeed 

 have to be a movable feast, in more 

 senses than one, if the shooting considera- 

 tions are to come first. 



The writer speaks feelingly of this not 

 uncommon type of country, where it 

 takes perhaps 1500 acres, containing only 

 some half-dozen turnip-fields, to make a 

 day's driving, for these are the conditions 

 in his own county in the west of Scotland, 

 where he may claim to have been the 

 pioneer of driving. Here redoubled 

 vigilance is necessary to keep your birds, 



