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with no time to poke or dwell on his 

 aim. 



While, in the longer drives off hill 

 ground in Scotland, birds are brought 

 clean off their own ground into country 

 quite new to them, and it is all-important 

 that the butts should be hidden from 

 their view, on many of the English moors 

 somewhat different conditions prevail. 

 On a flat moor in Yorkshire, where there 

 is not enough slope to admit of half- 

 sunk and drained butts, it would be 

 impossible to conceal the butts from the 

 birds. Nor, in this case, is it essential ; 

 for if the butts be built up some time 

 before the shooting, all the birds who come 

 forward in the shorter drives of the low 

 moors will know the butts well by sight, 

 and take little notice of them if the guns 

 are well concealed. All that is necessary, 

 then, is to impress on the guns how im- 

 portant it is that they should go quietly 

 to their butts and keep out of sight. 



Having decided where the flight of the 

 birds can best be intercepted, it is advis- 



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