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HINTS ON GROUSE DRIVING. 



each drive ; if even, one. By this means the fact of 

 an outside place falling to each gun more than twice 

 in the day is avoided ; a somewhat unreasonable 

 prejudice existing in the idea of grouse-driving 

 sportsmen against the outer or extreme butts which, 

 when the wind is blowing strongly in their direction, 



often turn out as good as, or better than, the centre 

 places. Indeed, when an affable host assures his 

 friends that " he is only just going to stand in at 

 one of the ends himself, and pick up a few chance 

 birds/' it is not to be taken for gospel that he is in 

 reality extraditing himself from the thick of the shoot- 



