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GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES 



As Grouse-sliootiug is a subject which has been already 

 hackneyed to the last degree, and one with which every 

 sportsman is only- too well acquainted, it would be pre- 

 sumption on my part to deal with that which has been so 

 ably set forth already by one of our l^est of sportsmen and 



shooters, Lord 

 Walsingham, 

 whose article in 

 the " Badmin- 

 ton Library" 

 nearly every 

 one who cares 

 for the sport 

 has read and is 

 familiar with. 

 Neither would 

 it be fair to 

 inflict on my kind readers a 

 lonsj dissertation on the Grouse 

 disease, its causes and subse- 

 quent cure. Human powers 

 are at present unable to cope 

 with it, though nearly every 

 one is aware that neolect of a 

 moor, in the shape of over- 

 stockino- and insufiicient 

 heather-burning, is the chief reason of its occurrence, and 

 only good care and attention to certain facts can ensure the 

 prevention of this terrible scourge. It is clear that no moor 

 is able to hold above a certain numl»er of l)irds -pev acre, 

 and when the place has 1 become overstocked, whether good 



"a snify one under the kite.' 



