CO VER T-SHOOTING. 



lonsfer face the forward 

 guns, and curl back over 

 the beaters' heads only to 

 meet their doom from the 

 two guns who are now 

 standing back in the covert. 

 As the beaters close in a 

 semicircle at the end of 

 the clump, the laggard 

 birds only rise just at the 

 fence, and give lower, 

 nearer, and less interest- 

 ing chances. These seem 

 the easiest shots of all 

 but they are not so ; no- 

 thing, I don't know why, 

 is more difficult than a 

 low broadside shot at a 

 pheasant, perhaps because 

 he looks so common-place, 

 obvious, and easy, and 



TEARING THEM DOWN. 



