140 SHOOTING THE GROUSE 



point chosen from the burn to the ridge, the highest 

 No. 8, being just under or on the ridge, as experience 

 shows to be best. The drive widens out into a corrie 

 or flat at the beginning, in which lie a large proportion 

 of the birds, taking advantage of its sheltered posi- 

 tion. In this drive there will be no pointsman or flanker 

 near the guns on the windward side, while on the lee- 

 ward side five or six of the men will be pushed along 

 the burn-side before the drive begins, the efforts of 

 the pointsman, standing on the highest knoll he can 

 find, being supplemented by the man with the ponies, 

 who can always be utilised as a flag nearer the guns. 

 It is of supreme importance that this formation should 

 be completed before the driving begins, and it must 

 be borne in mind that the upper drivers, on the wind- 

 ward side, will, in addition to the wind, have the added 

 power of showing against the sky to the birds below 

 them. Their movements must, therefore, be cautious, 

 and they must not get too far ahead or make them- 

 selves too conspicuous, as they might if it were a still 

 day or they had the wind in their favour. 



When the base or centre, A, of the drive begins to 

 move, all the men on the leeward or burn-side must 

 come into sight at once, and the aforesaid men on the 

 windward flank must creep under, not on, the ridge to 

 get round the sheltered corrie without going very far 



