132 TEN YEARS OF GAME-KEEPING 



into a slaughter-house, you may place the guns in 

 the open, and your pheasants will go to them as if 

 they liked it. 



Pheasant-shooting on a foggy day makes it harder 

 to put the birds up, and even if you employ 

 double the usual number of stops, a lot of birds will 

 give you the slip. Besides, the birds that have 

 passed over the guns may soar so high in a fog as 

 to pass right over another covert, into which, in 

 clear weather, they would have gone most con- 

 veniently. Happy is the keeper whose lot is cast 

 in a country where there are no fogs, but plenty 

 of pheasants, which it is more difficult to show low 

 enough than high enough. 



