CO VER T'SHOO TING. 



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longer face the forward 

 guns, and curl back over 

 the beaters* heads only to 

 meet their doom from the 

 two guns who are now 

 standing back in the covert 

 As the beaters close in a 

 semicircle at the end of 

 the clump, the laggard 

 birds only rise just at the 

 fence, and give lower, 

 nearer, and less interest- 

 ing chances. These seem 

 the easiest shots of all, 

 but they are not so ; no- 

 thing, I don't know why, 

 is more difficult than a 

 low broadside shot at a 

 pheasant, perhaps because 

 he looks so common-place, 

 obvious, and easy, and 



"TEARING THEM DOWN." 



