34 GROUSE-SHOOTING. 



of the ground untried, as when coveys are separated and 

 the birds frightened, and driven about, they may lie in 

 places not at all suspected, and sometimes so close, as 

 almost to be trodden upon. 



When game i$ scarce, the sportsman must make ex- 

 tensive circles, and observe great silence and circumspec- 

 tion : some keep spaniels detached, sending them for- 

 ward with a keeper, to hunt all the turnips and other 

 likely haunts. 



In throwing off young dogs, it may be necessary to 

 give them the wind, which they will afterwards in- 

 stinctively keep. Shooting-dogs should, as much as 

 possible, be brought to attend to signals by the hand ; 

 and though under good command they may be allowed 

 a pretty extensive range, yet all should be kept as much 

 as possible within sight, and young ones ever within 

 hearing. 



The wounded partridge may be instantly killed by a 

 slight knock on the back of the head against the gun- 

 stock. 



% GROUSE-SHOOTING. 



THE Scotch and Welsh mountains are the principal 

 places for grouse-shooting. Bed grouse are plentiful in 

 the moor-lands of Derbyshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, 

 and Yorkshire. They do not now come further than 

 Staffordshire. A hardy J^id deep-flewed setter is far 

 preferable to the pointer for grouse-shooting. Half a dny 



