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LETTER XVI 

 GEOUSE SHOOTING (PART I) 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON, WITH ADVICE IN THE 

 SELECTION OF A MOOR FOR WORKING WITH POINTERS 

 OR SETTERS 



OF all sport with the shoulder gun, grouse shooting 

 is the finest and most popular, whether the birds are 

 followed with pointers and setters, or are driven to 

 the shooters. The air, the scenery, the time of year, 

 and the wild nature of the game all tend to make the 

 owner, or tenant, of a grouse moor a man to be 

 envied ; for his surroundings are incentive in a high 

 degree to his health and enjoyment. 



Having said this much, I shall quit the picturesque 

 and turn to the practical details of grouse shooting, 

 dispensing with the introductory rhapsodies that are 

 usually indulged in by authors when they describe 

 the sport ! (Here are a few to select from, if you 

 fancy such : * The crowing moorfowl,' ' the cackle of 

 the cock grouse,' ' the purple mountains,' ' the beetling 

 crags,' ' the silent hills,' ' the drifting shadows,' ' the 

 .sparkling streams,' 'the gallant dogs,' 'the stalwart 



