184 SHOOTING THE PARTRIDGE 
must be dealt with at once. To shoot properly you 
must study your walking, and train yourself to the 
habit, which becomes eventually second nature, of 
surveying the ground just in front of you before you 
put your feet down. If you are stumbling over tur- 
nips or treading indiscriminately among the drills, 
you will miss many shots, for the partridge is up and 
off like a firework without your knowing where the 
fuse is lighted that sets him off. Study the possibilities 
of a shot when getting over a fence, and so order 
your going that without danger to others you are 
always ready. 
In conclusion, if possible, let no one be of your 
party who is not keen and ready to abide by orders. 
If he does not care to help towards making a good 
bag, and to do exactly what you tell him, you are 
better without him. 
