SCOTCH DRIVING 143 



Again, if driven in the ordinary horseshoe shape, 

 with both flanks equally forward, a lot of birds will be 

 lost, still owing to the curve they will describe be- 

 cause of the wind, at and between the points D and 

 D. Besides this the flankers on the ridge side, espe- 

 cially if showing strong against the sky, will turn back 

 any birds which get up below and behind them, and 

 these will again make away over the drivers' heads to 

 the point R. The only birds which will come well to the 

 guns will be those that rise in the middle, having 

 caught sight of the burn-side flank and not seen the 

 ridge flank. But the drive will not be a success, 

 half the birds not having come forward to the guns, 

 and what is worse, the next drive, in which these birds 

 are counted on to make a still better one, will be 

 spoilt also. 



In giving this illustration I have endeavoured to 

 take an instance of a typical drive in a Scotch glen, 

 and founded it not upon any one place in particular, 

 but upon the common or usual characteristics of such 

 ground. 



To drive the same piece with a cross-wind from 

 the opposite direction that is, blowing up the hill is 

 an easier matter, and I do not think requires a fresh 

 diagram. The flankers along the burn-side need not 

 lie so numerous or conspicuous, though this wing 



