CHAPTER III. 



THE WORKING OP THE DRIVE, AND THE DUTIES OF THE 

 DRIVERS. 



We only part to meet again. 



GAY. 



Men who their duties know. 



SIR WILLIAM JONES. 



[O the drivers (briefly referred to at the end 

 of my last chapter) belong no small part 

 of the responsibility and certainly much 

 of the kudos to be attained in shape of 

 a big bag at the close of the day's sport. They walk 

 hard ; hard, in fact, is a mild term to use when 

 attempting to describe the nonchalant fashion in 

 which these stalwart young fellmen seventy or 

 eighty in number, perhaps, collected from the various 

 farms outlying the moor to be shot tackle their 

 native slopes and heights. They are to the ordinary 

 Englishman what the greyhound is to the bulldog 

 having the same pluck and determination, but a 

 decided advantage in the matter of legs. A recruit- 

 ing sergeant anxious to uphold the honour of the old 

 colours of any particular regiment should search 

 nowhere else for the (l raw material " but amongst 

 the hills and dales of our four northernmost counties. 



