THE FALCOK". 7 a 



reach the lodge, and all the way you will be 

 thinking how out of place grouse are in deer- 

 forests. 



Let natiu-alists be content to follow the 

 falcon to these splendid great wildernesses, and 

 study his habits there, and not try to introduce 

 him on oiu: grouse-moors where he is less 

 wanted, and infinitely more destructive than he 

 would be in our drawing-rooms. 



And we are perfectly aware that there are 

 parts of these deer-forests where grouse are far 

 from scarce, although surrounded by their 

 enemies. But these are favoured spots so 

 peculiarly suited to them that they will come in 

 to breed there every year, 



Each stepping vrhere his comrade stood 

 The instant that he fell. 



