HINTS ON GROUSE DRIVING. 169 



occupants shooting each other. Indeed, on my own 

 moors, I put up these cross safety mounds in all cases. 

 The expense is but trifling, and you then feel that all 

 has been done that can be done to ensure safety. 



These " traversers " should be very high, so as to 

 effectually guard the next door neighbour from any 

 possible effect of a careless shot, though nothing can 

 prevent danger to the next butt but one from a right- 

 angled shot fired without due care ; still, then the 

 distance comes in as an assistance, and, unless unfor- 

 tunately hit " straight in the eye," a charge of shot 

 rattling over your person from the next battery but 

 one might be disagreeable, and provocative of strong 

 language, but hardly dangerous. 



Where the question of expense, objection on the 

 part of tenants to the sacrifice of the necessary 

 quantity of " turfs," or the configuration of the 

 ground may render the erection of these " patent 

 safetyes " undesirable or impossible, a simple safe- 

 guard still remains in case any host may feel a little 

 nervous as to whether or no his guns are all 

 " Griffiths' s " safe men. Let him into both sides of 

 each butt, at right angles to where the shooter should 

 stand, plant a sufficiently stiff pole or stick to arrest 

 the sweep of the gun. Should the handler be inclined 

 to swing his weapon too far to the right or left, the jar 

 of the barrels against the stick will administer a good 

 practical hint not to " do it again," and a man soon 

 learns to toss and turn his gun horizontally to avoid 



