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or the sight of their wounded and dead fellows, 

 would rouse them to flight. It has farther been re- 

 marked, that when a company of sportsmen have 

 surrounded a pack of Grouse, the birds seldom or 

 never rise upon their pinions while they are en- 

 circled ; but each runs along until it passes the per- 

 son that is nearest it, and then flutters off with the 

 utmost expedition." 



