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the weather has been at all broken, they pack, 

 and are no longer approachable. Driving is 

 then the only resource ; for this a perfect 

 knowledge of the country and the habits of the 

 birds is absolutely necessary. The keeper will 

 know to a very few yards the line of flight of 

 the different packs, and as you walk the 

 ground with the dogs at the beginning of the 

 season, he should carefully point out the pro- 

 per position for the guns in the several drives, 

 and how those positions are to be reached ; 

 beginning with the first drive after leaving the 

 lodge, and so on to the succeeding stands, so 

 that when the time comes for driving, you will 

 know exactly where to go and what to do, and 

 will be able to dispense with the guidance of 

 the keeper, leaving him to devote his whole 

 attention to the management of the drive, in 

 the happy conviction that he can depend upon 

 the guns being in their exact places, and not, 

 as sometimes happens, a mile away from where 

 they were expected to be. There is a great 

 charm about grouse driving, which probably 

 arises from the lazy vagabond way of wander- 

 ing over the moor, after the steady, serious, 



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