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off into the next corrie, where he finds some more 

 friends who have been similarly disturbed. They 

 join forces and, with the wind well in their noses, go 

 up a steepish hill to a pass which leads over the ridge 

 into another glen. They look up at the skyline and, 

 seeing no one, proceed on their way. The forester 

 knows that the deer would not at any rate go over 

 this ridge, he wishes to make them take the pass, and 

 if he placed men about all the tops indiscriminately 

 he would only frighten the deer and prevent the 

 development of the notion that they are not being 

 driven, and that the figures moving on the skyline 

 are only ' casuals ' shepherds or tourists. In this way 

 by great quietness, free use of the watch and strict 

 obedience to orders, the foresters continue to make 

 the deer believe that they are moving of their own 

 accord, or at most only getting out of the way of a 

 few accidental intruders upon their solitudes. 



By the exercise of caution and punctuality on 

 the part of the men, who are told off to show them- 

 selves in various places, the deer are pushed or coaxed 

 rather than driven to the passes on the burn-side, 

 shoulder or top of the hill where the guns are posted, 

 and here we may take leave of them. Driving deer 

 forms so essential a part of and is so intimately 

 connected with the management of a forest, that the 



