90 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



not more than ten miles distant from our camp, 

 so we pushed on by moonlight and got in soon 

 after ten o'clock. We had certainly walked a 

 good many hours, but could not have covered 

 any great distance as our pace across the bogs 

 had necessarily been slow. 



We made two halts during the day, 

 one in the morning to eat some delicious 

 berries which we found growing in x^ro- 

 fusion on a mossy " barren," and the 

 second in the afternoon to roast and eat 

 three willow grouse which I had shot with 

 my rifle. 



The above-mentioned berries are known in 

 Newfoundland as partridge berries — partridge 

 being the local name for willow grouse. 

 I thought them most delicious and made a good 

 meal off them. 



The willow grouse allowed me to walk up to 

 within ten yards of them as they sat on the 

 ground, and I shot them, one after the other, 

 thi'ough the head. This may possibly be 

 considered an unsportsmanlike action, but, 

 after all, these birds were not shot for sport 



