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the obstacle, should he wish to fire straight behind 

 him. 



Care should also be taken to burn the heather for 

 fifty yards or so around each battery, to facilitate the 

 picking up of the dead birds, and so lightening the 

 labours of your retriever. Some excellent advice 

 upon this head will be found below ; it is, however, 

 most usual to burn thoroughly all round all the butts 

 for some distance, so that the grouse get thoroughly 

 accustomed to the innovation ; and when a grouse 

 has once invaded this your territory, I can recom- 

 mend 4ogrs. of Cooppal powder and i Joz. of No. 4 soft 

 shot as the surest means of serving him with a writ of 

 ne exeat regno. 



Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey most obligingly sends, 

 amongst other comments upon this subject, the 

 following notes, which will be, I think, found of 

 such general 'interest, as emanating from so well 

 known an authority, that I venture to print them : 



" It is a usual custom where eight drives are gone 

 through in a day by means of a double set of drivers, 

 and by reason of the expectancy of a large bag, to 

 only ' pick up ' after every two drives. This would, 

 I should imagine, put all marking ' topsy turvey ' at 

 once, as the paper plan would have to be reversed, 

 and the wounded would be running about from one 

 square to another, and you would have no idea which 

 drive the wounded belonged to, or to what square. 

 The only method I have used that approaches success 



