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fidgety, impatient shooter, who will trot to a gap in 
a good hedge to see what the beaters are doing? 
Particularly is it fatal to invite attention to your 
presence when birds, instead of coming over a 
hedge, alight just on the other side. If they ‘find 
of’ the guns, it is ten to one they will not face them 
when re-flushed by the beaters. 
I recall a rather ludicrous but annoying incident 
at a hare drive. The fence we were lining was 
none too dense. Just as a whole troop of hares 
were about to come through opposite the centre 
gun, he whipped out a huge white handkerchief, 
unfolded it, shook it well out, and blew a loud blast 
on his nose. Another man and myself were on 
each side of him, and had been watching the 
approaching hares. We whistled softly, and waved 
our hands deprecatingly. The shooter did not 
understand, yelled out to know what was the matter, 
and blew another blast on his nose. 
There is a type of shooter who gets wrinkles 
from the keeper, and trots them out to the other 
guns as his own. Though he may forget the 
keeper, the keeper does not forget him. 
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