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hundred yards only for the return drive. For some 

 years \ve used to drive back over the same butts ; but 

 grouse hardly ever return to any ground by the same 

 line as they took to leave it, and here they always 

 come back higher up, with the exception of a few 

 lots which will return much lower down, and which 

 it cannot be hoped to include in the drive. 



The reason of this is the wind the invariable 

 factor in determining the line of the flight of grouse. 

 This time they will be coming back off higher ground, 

 the wind, though still across, being rather more behind 

 them, an important fact to them, and with the sun 

 also more behind them, an equally important one to 

 you. You have now to keep, if possible, more care- 

 fully on the watch than before, and from the first 

 moment after getting to your place, for some will 

 return to their own ground almost immediately. Here 

 you must carefully scan the face of the hill opposite 

 you, bothered as you are by the sun, now on your 

 left ; for they will be very difficult to see against the 

 dark rising ground, and come very fast. You will 

 get no shots against the sky except at such as come 

 high. 



They return on higher ground here for two reasons, 

 one being that the majority of those in the last drive 

 actually came off higher ground over the ridge to 



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