Utility and Ecqpomy of Birds 
introduced into Parliament in 1915 to allow 
of GROUSE being shot on August 5th instead 
of the 12th, but, after being passed by the 
House of Lords, it was thrown out by the 
Commons amid cries of ‘‘ We want to shoot 
Germans, not GROUSE.’’ The season 1915-16 
proved exceptionally good for GRousE. At 
Abbeystead, in Lancashire, the record bag 
of 2,929 was obtained by eight guns on 
August 12th, and reports from all parts of 
the country testified to the superabundance of 
GROUSE. But so great was the difficulty in 
getting drivers, and even guns to shoot, that 
I know of one celebrated Yorkshire moor, 
usually let for £4,000 per annum, for which 
but £100 was offered, and the would-be 
tenant afterwards heard that had he offered 
£150 he would probably have got it. In 
Westmorland over one hundred boy scouts 
were employed as GROUSE drivers in August 
1915. The prices for GAME in Leadenhall 
Market were nothing unusual. In November 
Igi5 it was asked, in the House of Commons, 
whether, in view of the reduction in the 
amount of cereals to be raised in the United 
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