SCOTCH DRIVING 163 



The writer is all against upright, built-up butts. 

 These must be dark-looking, and the birds ' shy ' at 

 them, without the least doubt. 



The butts should be half sunk, well drained, and 

 perfectly invisible from the front. 



For driving, about thirty beaters and six side 

 boys are used. Only single drives are taken, as the 

 distances taken in are very large in some drives 

 about three miles round the arc of the beaters. Not 

 a word is allowed to be said, except by the head 

 keeper, who is always in the centre of the beaters. 

 The six side boys are placed in ' pegged-out ' posi- 

 tions, and only use their flags on the down-wind side. 



Some of the drives are very peculiar. In the 'Top 

 of the Delta,' which is about the best on the moor, 

 the grouse are driven to the end of a sloping hill, and 

 parallel, and not at right angles to the butts. ]>y 

 this way as many birds are shot coming from behind 

 the right rear of the butts as from the direct front. 

 The butts at this drive are very close to each other, 

 and the bags made at it are large 350 birds, for 

 instance. 



In another drive, 'The Rocks,' the birds are 

 driven at first entirely away to the left of the line of 

 butts, and at least half a mile to their left. '\Yhen 

 once congregated on a certain flat, they are then 



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