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less distance not being safe for the eyes of your 

 friends. 



In the early part of the season it is better not to 

 have too many drivers ; the birds which they pass by 

 without flushing will be all young ones, precisely those 

 required for breeding stock, and if they came on, as 

 they would, at the end of the drive, singly and flying 

 very slowly, they would all be massacred. If your 

 moor is at the end of a spur of the greater range, you 

 can always insure a good double drive by pushing 

 them first to the end, next the cultivated land, and 

 then bringing them back ; but in such a case your 

 men had better sweep in some of the pastures below 

 the end of the moor, on which there arc sure to be 

 birds. This formation of ground accounts partially 

 for the certainty with which a large bag can be made 

 on many moors, notably on Broomhead and Blubber- 

 house. 1 In severe or bad breeding seasons the lower 

 moors will suffer less than the higher, and as the 

 former will be always fed, to a certain extent, by the 

 latter, and have the advantage of them, it behoves 

 the owner of moorland which is lower than his 

 neighbours, and constitutes the end of a large ridge 

 or stretch, not to be too hard upon the birds, especially 

 late on in the season. Were he able to kill every 



1 Mr. Kimington Wilson's and Lord Wnlsingham's respectively. 



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