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must still be pushed on a little. The general tendency 

 of the birds in this wind will be either to creep across 

 the wind and up the hill, or to turn back as before 

 over the beaters, making their exit in this instance 

 somewhere over the point A, instead of towards B. 

 The flankers on the ridge side will this time be the 

 important people, and will have more to do. They 

 must push more forward than the other flank, and 

 coming along over or above the ridge turn those birds 

 which are inclined to go over gently on to the guns. 

 This will not be difficult to do, provided they are 

 stationed there in time, but as the birds are flying up- 

 hill, and the wind slightly more against them than 

 with them, it will be time enough to turn them after 

 they have topped the ridge. This is the reason 

 why they should, as I said, be themselves over or 

 behind the ridge ; the birds will then swing down 

 from them in a fresh curve and come over the upper 

 guns, hanging a good deal in the breeze and giving 

 easy shots. If the men came in full view along the 

 ridge, they would turn a good many of these birds 

 back over the centre A. 



In both these drives the butts numbered 4 to 

 7 will probably have the most shooting, though as 

 the lay of the ground varies in ..detail, as well as the 

 points from which the birds have been flushed, so will 



