BLACKGAME 245 



suggests that the guns should take the 

 time-honoured passes above the standing- 

 stones and have half the wood driven 

 up-wind to them. Watches are produced 

 and compared, and it is agreed to start 

 the drive at ten o'clock, which will give 

 you forty minutes to make the necessary 

 detour and get into your places. 



Hurriedly, for you are rather excited, 

 and anxious to waste no time, you fill 

 your smaller cartridge bag and sling it 

 over your shoulder, give the larger bag 

 with your reserve ammunition to be put 

 with the lunch in the panniers of the pony, 

 and follow your host on the rough sheep- 

 track, which winds down the steep brae- 

 face to the river, whose twistings and 

 turnings at least double the mile to be 

 traversed before you face the hill-side 

 again. 



A stiff pull up an open glade in the 

 wood, knee deep in bog myrtle and 

 juniper, and your host has placed you, 

 rather hot and out of breath, almost 

 within shot of the moorland above, 



