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. 
