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which has attended the new regime. 

 Other factors in the matter will be 

 noticed in their proper place. These 

 improvements, of quite modern date in 

 the realm of the grouse, were introduced 

 by a few gentlemen whose names are as 

 household words in connection with 

 grouse shooting, and often, too, in opposi- 

 tion to the rooted ignorance and invin- 

 cible prejudice of even their own retainers. 

 Stubbornness of will and immovability of 

 hereditary view are seldom seen in greater 

 force than in the old family gamekeeper, 

 but happily an altogether different race 

 of keepers is now occupying the field, and 

 soon will do so completely. These men 

 of education superior to the older race, of 

 more receptive intelligence and openness 

 to instruction, whose alertness and bodily 

 activities are equally superior, are having 

 a rapidly beneficial effect on all the 

 matters committed to their charge. 



Since the serious decline in value of 

 mountain sheep grazings, which shows no 

 signs of permanent recovery, the number 



