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because the covey keeps more together uport 

 feed; and secondly, because, as I have some- 

 where picked up, they always feed up the wind: 

 if, therefore, you have the means of making 

 your circle large enough, you can hardly be 

 wrong. But from the same authority, I do 

 not recollect now where I found it, I have 

 understood that grouse feed down the wind. 

 Now, supposing this to be the fact, if your dog 

 come across a brood upon the morning feed, he 

 may very readily be struck by the haunt of 

 some straggling bird to windward, and draw 

 up to actual point. In this case, if you adopt 

 the sweep ahead, as you bear down upon him, 

 with the usual signal of check from your hand 

 to keep him from an advance, that he may show 

 symptoms, and perhaps by this time have some 

 good reasons for attempting, he becomes fixed 

 in a mere point of awe; in which, as you get 

 close upon him, you may perceive from his 

 manner that the sense of game has no share : 

 the noise you make daring this approach (in 

 the necessary communication with him to check 

 this attempt, which he has been prompted to 

 by the perception that, during his attention to 

 you, the game has slipped from before his nose, 

 and has run), of course disturbs the remainder 

 of the brood ; and all the produce of your point 

 is, the mortification of seeing them steal up at 

 a hundred yards or more behind the dog, whose 



