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destructive. In the case of the sheep fence, it should be 

 bushed with bunches of heather tied to the top wire ; or, better 

 still, between each post should be hung a board about eighteen 

 inches long by six wide, and though more troublesome and 

 expensive to put up than the heather bunches, they last longer, 

 as they are not blown away by a gale. The whole length of 

 every wire fence does not require doing in this way, as it is only 

 in certain positions that it plays great havoc, and perhaps in 

 several miles of fencing it will only be just here and there that 

 the skeletons show where the fatal places are. 



As illustrating how destructive a wire fence may be in 

 certain positions, the author remembers walking by the side 

 of one in Dumfriesshire, when in a quarter of a mile he counted 

 more than fifty grouse skeletons ; and though this fence was 

 fully a mile and a half in length, it was only in one part that all 

 the destruction took place. 



In the matter of telegraph wires the Post Office will, if 

 requested, hang boards on them at their own expense, their 

 liability being established in a court of law at Edinburgh, when 

 the late Sir Donald Campbell, of Dunstaffnage, brought, 

 fought, and won an action against the Post Office on this 

 very matter. 



Grouse driving, originating in and at one time confined to 

 Yorkshire with a few other English counties, has of late years 

 become almost universal in Scotland, where hardly a moor is to 

 be found on which it is not practised more or less successfully. 



Although not agreeing with an enthusiastic Yorkshire 

 friend, who vows there are more grouse in that county than 

 in the whole of Scodand put together (and it is a fact that, 

 on one small Yorkshire moor, not a thousand acres in extent, 

 six guns in two consecutive days' driving killed 600 brace), 

 it must be admitted the Scotch bags do not come near the 

 English ones in their totals. But for all that, there are often 

 very nice scores made in the Highlands, and on several 

 occasions we have seen over a hundred brace a day scored 



