CHAPTER II. 



PRACTICAL HINTS ON GROUSE DRIVING. 



To shoot at crows is powder thrown away. 



GAY (Epi. IV., last line). 



|N my last chapter I spoke of the advisa- 

 bility of providing some means of 

 marking down the number of successful 

 shots achieved, and the relative positions 

 of the slain. I append, on p. 138, a rough sketch, show- 

 ing the outer leaf of a small drawing block, to be pro- 

 cured kt any stationer's for gd. The centre repre- 

 sents your position as given in Butt i, the arrow 

 points turning in the direction from which birds are 

 supposed to be coming. The number of the drive, 

 your butt, and the date can be affixed in the corner 

 if you are sufficiently curious to wish to retain your 

 calendar of the slain for future reference. The 

 crosses are meant to represent possible runners, 

 while the dots are placed as you suppose that you 

 will find stone-dead birds, according to their position 

 within your imaginary squares. Your butt being the 

 centre, as a peg is generally placed in the ground 

 between each butt to warn the occupants how far 



