282 EXPERIENCES OF SPORT. 



In beating your ground for partridges, and 

 where the turnips and potatoes are in drills, 

 never work up the drills because the birds see 

 you much quicker. Your dogs, as a rule, should 

 work up wind, but in this case it is not of much 

 consequence. 



At the commencement and end of the season, 

 turnips carry but little leaf, and the killing 

 way, when birds are at all inclined to be wild, is 

 to cross the drills and not walk up them. 



At the commencement of the season, men 

 that are accustomed to it will always pick out 

 the old birds, as they are much larger and 

 stronger; you have then the covey at your 

 mercy. 



If you can, always commence shooting your 

 outskirts so as to drive the birds into your 

 ground, not out of it. 



In hot' weather endeavour to drive your 

 birds into heath, potatoes, seed clover, long 

 grass or hedge rows, there they will He like 

 stones. 



In snipe shooting, always have the wind at 

 your back, the snipe flies up wind not down it, 

 therefore by adopting this plan, you get a much 



