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the keeper being either away on the drive or well 

 tipped to hold his tongue. 



I would again urge a beginner to well consider 

 all I have before remarked regarding the swing of the 

 gun, and ever to remember to swing to a point at 

 which he has mentally calculated the shot from his gun 

 will meet the leading bird, and in so doing to re- 

 member the terrific pace at which a driven grouse 

 travels. Let him fire far enough ahead. A grouse 

 travelling at the rate of eighty miles an hour requires 

 plenty of swing and allowance. I may say that the 

 term ' swing ' seems to fall somewhat short of what I 

 wish to impress upon the reader ; it is insufficient ; 

 the pace demands more than mere ' swing' in order to 

 get the charge far enough ahead. 



I once saw no fewer than thirteen arouse fall to the 

 two barrels of a young friend of mine whom I was 

 teaching to shoot, and who had till then never even 

 fired at a grouse in his life. I placed him in a hollow, 

 and showed myself to about five hundred grouse on a 

 stubble, sending another person round the birds, and, 

 much to my satisfaction, they flew straight at my pupil 

 in the hollow ; he did not see them approaching, but 

 had plenty of time to get in two barrels as they came 

 across his left front ; he fired at the leading bird, and, 

 to my surprise, the charge of No. 4 shot committed 

 havoc with a vengeance, for we then marked down 

 thirteen dead, and we saw several which were still going 

 ov^er the neighbouring march which were evidently 

 hard hit, and which must have probably towered 

 and fallen. Altogether, we that day gathered eleven 

 birds, and on the day following one of my retrievers 

 found two more dead birds which we had overlooked. 



