GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 283 



nearer shot at them than you would were you 

 to work up-wind. 



In hard weather, and where the birds are 

 frozen out of their usual feeding grounds, follow 

 the running streams and little brooks, edges of 

 rivers, and so forth ; your retriever is the only 

 dog you will want at this time ; number eight 

 shot is the best size for snipe shooting. 



In pheasant shooting, if you are working 

 hedge rows, have a gun on each side, and let 

 the hedges and brambles, etc., be well beaten, 

 or if you have a good spanielj or retriever that 

 you can depend on, let them work it for you, 

 but they must always be kept within gun shot. 



In cover shooting, if you are ahead of the 

 beaters or placed in a hot corner for the bouquet, 

 never smoke, or make the least noise, otherwise 

 you will lose a quantity of shots ; the same 

 may be said when you are working your ferrets 

 for rabbits, never show yourself, and be silent, 

 otherwise they will not bolt, and it often takes 

 an hour or two over one burrow^, whereas if you 

 had been silent and out of sight, you would 

 have worked the burrow in three minutes. 



It matters not where and at what you are 



