192 SHOOTING THE GROUSE 



long, high, crossing shots, and going clean back 

 over the drivers. High, and well forward, and you 

 have killed a beautiful double shot ; don't forget to 

 pick these up afterwards, for they have fallen a long 

 way from any of your other birds. 



The drivers are showing all along the line, their 

 flags are rattling in the wind, and it is nearly over. 

 Do you remember where that bird settled about sixty 

 yards in front, just in that deep bit of heather ? They 

 will go past him, for I don't think he has ever risen ; 

 call to them, waving them to where he was. Yak-kak ! 

 there he is, and as he comes straight on and rather 

 high you have killed him easily and safely over their 

 heads. He is about the last, and I think as the 

 drivers are now only forty yards off, we may go out 

 and pick up. 



It is better now to make the loader hold your dog 

 until we have picked up all the dead ones near the butt 

 on the burnt ground. It is bad for him to see so many 

 dead on the ground and he will have had enough work 

 by the end of the day. Having done this the man can 

 go off after the bird we marked at the very beginning 

 of the drive, which is quite dead, and you and I will 

 look after the otheis with the dog, particularly those 

 two or three which fell, not killed dead, near the little 

 burnside. Twenty- seven you had down, besides one 



