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distinguished from the time -honoured 

 mode of shooting over dogs, will be 

 canvassed in a succeeding chapter ; and 

 here all that may be further said about it 

 is an expression of a regret, if not a lament, 

 that the picturesque and more recreative 

 older method seems doomed permanently 

 to occupy an inferior place in grouse 

 shooting. But one cannot help harbour- 

 ing a hope that even among converts to 

 the driving cult there may be not a few 

 sensitive to reminiscences of boyish days, 

 when their first lessons in the art of 

 shooting were received from some 

 accomplished elder member of the old 

 school, father or grandfather it might be, 

 over a brace of good setters. These may 

 still find it pleasant to recall, and mayhap 

 to regret, the passing of the picturesque 

 surroundings and restful ways of the 

 sport of the grouse in those bygone days. 

 With thoughts pointing thus it will 

 perhaps be forgiven us if we, with kind 

 acknowledgment to the Scotsman, in 

 which the following charming idyl of 



