CHAPTER XII 
TYPES OF SHOOTERS 
The interfering shooter—The ‘sketchy’ shooter—The late guest—The 
perfumed shooter—The ‘ winger’—The man in weird raiment— 
Some incidents—The fidgety shooter. 
My bag of shooters is a mixed one. The shooter 
who is most objectionable to the keeper is the man 
who wants to run everything himself, and, con- 
sequently, never is happy unless he is interfering. 
Often enough he is a pretty good shot, thinks he 
knows as much about woodcraft as he would lead one 
to believe, and is always selfish. I had experience 
of such a man during the early days of my career, 
and I have never forgotten him. We were about 
to walk a large piece of sainfoin in which we knew 
there were a good many partridges. I proposed to 
take it in two beats, coming back after the first on 
the same ground. A guest interposed his dictatorial 
spoke to the effect that my plan was absurd, and 
meant a deal of extra walking and unnecessary waste 
of time. He never had been on the ground before. 
However, after being compelled to waste time 
listening to his harangue, I suggested that possibly 
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