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moment, giving yon an easy chance of 

 scoring if yon are there and ready to take 

 it, and have not rushed out of your butt 

 to start picking up. 



This same question of picking up is a 

 very difficult one : you neither want to 

 leave any birds on the ground, nor do you 

 wish your neighbours to think you greedy. 



Some jealous people display an in- 

 decent haste to make sure of the birds 

 which fell near the frontiers of their 

 ground, returning later to those lying 

 nearer their butt, where they feel secure 

 from possible trespassers. 



To make picking up a satisfactory 

 performance there must be mutual 

 consideration and forbearance among the 

 guns ; pegs marking half the distance 

 between butts are not really satisfactory, 

 for in a drive with a strong side wind all 

 your birds may fall round and beyond the 

 butt below you, while all the birds lying 

 round your own butt rightfully belong 

 to the gun up-wind of you. 



Pick up all the birds close round your 



