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‘Yes,’ you feel inclined to say, ‘but the “awful lot” 
are no longer there ; one hundred and sixty of them 
have been picked, trussed, and eaten, a few more 
died and were never retrieved, and what are left, 
though they would make a pretty wild sporting 
second-time-over shoot, will give us a very poor day’s 
driving. If they were still here alive, together with 
the fifty brace which six of us will with difficulty 
secure to-day, we should have a pretty day.’ To 
this his answer will probably be that he prefers 
smaller bags and more days. Well and good, but he 
has no business with the second day at all. It is too 
much for the ground, and if two days were to be 
made on the beat, this is not the way to make 
them, especially as he probably shot his eighty brace 
with inferior guns, and asked his best guns to the 
later driving. In these days the demand is not so 
much for a great number of days’ shooting as for good 
and well-managed days, quality as to the number of 
days, quality and quantity combined, where possible, 
as regards the shooting. 
There are now many more resources and localities 
open to every one. Life is busier, and most men have 
too much to do to shoot six or even four days a week 
right through the season. I am far from saying that 
aman has not a perfect right, or is not often justified, 
