XMI. GROUSE SHOOTING(PA AT//),' OVER DOGS' 285 



I advise you in hot, calm weather to rest and 

 refresh from 12.30 to 2 o'clock ; at that period of the 

 day the grouse are sure to be resting also, and as 

 they are not on the move, there will be a poor scent, 

 and you may easily lose chances of sport by passing 

 birds squatting within a few yards of you, and which 

 you may not, having once walked the ground they are 

 on, return to find. 



In the same way when you feel parched and thirsty, 

 owing to a scorching sun, the grouse will have similar 

 feelings ; under these conditions, never pass a stream- 

 let after midday without searching its banks. 



NOTES OX WORKING A GROUSE MOOR WITH POINTERS 

 AND SETTERS 



Whatever dogs you fancy, have them well under 

 control. A couple of ugly pointers that do their work 

 steadily, and even slowly, may be worth much more 

 to the bag than the handsomest brace of wide-ranging 

 setters you can obtain. You will, as a rule, obtain 

 more sport with pointers, dull and stupid as they are, 

 than with setters, as the former often mean ' work ' 

 while the latter are not seldom for ' show.' Breaking 

 in a pointer is easy compared with the education of a 

 setter ; and recollect a setter will require breaking-in 

 more or less every season ; whilst as far as his memory 

 goes, a pointer could be taken straight from his 

 kennel to the moor. A fast-working setter is without 



