But it creates a stiffness.

Here all must be supple and fitted with watchful tact to the situation as it rose.

Everything would have to be shot flying.
Then as to the immediate situation, Reader, did ever you see a careful setter run suddenly into the middle of a covey who were not on their feet nor close together, but a little dispersed and reposing in high cover in the middle of the day?
No human face is ever so intense or human form more rigid.

He knows that one bird is three yards from his nose, another the same distance from either ear, and, in short, that they are all about him, and to frighten one is to frighten all.
His tail quivers, and then turns to steel, like his limbs.

His eyes glare; his tongue fears to pant; it slips out at one side of his teeth and they close on it.