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Speedy, Mr. Horace Hutchinson, and Mr. Stuart 

 Wortley, more particularly of the last. All these 

 writers deal with their subject tersely, simply, and 

 graphically, and any intelligent keeper will rise from 

 the perusal of these authors with a fairly definite view 

 to the last and the best word on the subject. As we 

 have said, we cannot pretend to deal with the matter 

 on the principles of elaboration so excellently and 

 vividly carried out by Mr. Stuart Wortley. We can 

 only absorb the best views and present them with the 

 modifications of our own experience. 



Let us then further deal with the three points 

 enumerated above : 



(1) Accurate knowledge of the conformation of the 

 land. From this knowledge the keeper will be able to 

 lay the plan of his drives, so as to meet efficiency w'ith 

 economy of time and of space. He will learn what 

 parts of the moor should be driven first, so as to keep 

 the birds on the ground for future drives, and how best 

 to work the moor so that the birds may be driven in 

 from the outlying beats for the final flush over the guns. 

 On hilly and rocky grounds he will discover where best 

 to place the butts so that these different parts may be 

 effectively worked. With a knowledge of the usual 

 flights of the birds, added to the general information 

 he possesses as to the lie of the land, he will be able 

 to judge as to the best general distribution of the 

 butts. 



(2) It is only by continuous and careful observation 



