THE HISTORY OF THE FIELD IN A DOZEN PROBLEMS PICKING UP

ON EVEN a modest day, the tingle of fresh air, the thrill of the sport and the presence of an eager dog at your side can be enough to occupy one's full attention.

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Then there are those days when you find that a drive has passed in a bucolic reverie almost entirely absorbed in the comings and goings of nature, broken only by staccato commands of “over” echoing down the line. Such rustic scenes are tickety-boo until the horn goes and you can't for the life of you remember at which end of the vast gorse thicket you dropped that first partridge.

In the year of Edward VIII's abdication, Captain Keith Caldwell very reasonably wrote in