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2. The day must be carefully planned 

 out beforehand with due regard to 

 questions of time and space, and there 

 must be alternative plans to adopt in case 

 of a contrary wind, for each drive must 

 help to collect the birds, and therefore 

 to start at the down- wind end of the 

 ground can never be right. 



3. Birds must be driven and not 

 ground ; having found the birds, the 

 main object is to keep and use them ; 

 therefore where the birds go the drivers 

 must follow, even though this means 

 departing from the prearranged plan. 



4. The beaters must be under control 

 and know something of their work. 

 Either all or none must carry flags ; an 

 odd flag here and there is worse than 

 useless. They must keep their intervals, 

 but must be ready to move in any forma- 

 tion. For there is no one golden rule 

 as to the shape of the driving line ; it 

 must be continually varied to suit the 

 wind, the lie of the ground, and the 

 way the birds would like to go. 



