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before the two flanks of the drive had met; the whole of 

 the men on the windward side lay flat down the instant 

 the birds rose, and that without a word of command. 

 The pack settled down again, and the down-wind side 

 got well round and brought them on over our heads. 

 What would an obstinate Scotchman with recalcitrant 

 drivers say to that ! 



If, again, the head man is one in whom his drivers 

 have complete confidence, and who has trained his lieu- 

 tenants to carry out his orders whether he is present or 

 not, he can enjoy the inestimable advantage of placing 

 himself on the flank close to the guns, or of going 

 into one of the butts with his master or some other 

 shooter, and observing the exact result of his plan of 

 campaign, and what alterations, if any, should be 

 made in the line of butts. It is also an excellent 

 thing, should opportunity serve, to let him visit other 

 moors where good driving is carried on, and where he 

 may pick up a new wrinkle or two, or get rid of ideas 

 which may be too local. 



I urge these points because it is impossible to in- 

 oculate a man with the instinct which alone makes a 

 first-rate grouse driver. The theory of the dis- 

 position of your drivers, the horse-shoe formation, the 

 placing of the flankers, and the method of progres- 

 sion, is now thoroughly familiar to all immediately 



