ON GROUSE-DRIVING 1G1 



But every gamekeeper will bear me 

 out that this is not the case. After a 

 morning's driving the grouse get scattered 

 and bewildered, and all that the driving 

 and shooting of the afternoon can do is 

 to make them still more scattered and 

 bewildered, and can have no effect in 

 permanently driving them off the ground. 

 When the day is over the scattered 

 birds will soon draw back to their own 

 ground. 



Where, on the other hand, birds are 

 frequently disturbed, they soon learn to 

 realise their danger, and take far longer 

 flights when they are first flushed. They 

 may thus discover a more peaceful spot 

 in which to dwell, and be lost to the 

 moor. Certainly game invariably does 

 best on ground which can be kept quiet. 



Another and more important cause of 

 the increase on driving moors, is that 

 the dangers of a weak stock being pro- 

 duced through too much in - breeding 

 are materially lessened. Driving always 



tends to mix up birds belonging to 



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