142 THE GROUSE 



larity, and has run through many editions, 

 we may quote the following extracts : — 



Driving shelters, also sometimes called "grouse 

 forts," should be in line, each about 80 to 100 

 yards apart ; as a general rule, they are much 

 wider apart. 



Grouse - driving commences on some moors 

 about the middle or latter part of September, and 

 continues to the close of the season. If the moor 

 be favourably situated for the purpose, the sport 

 may be, and frequently is, pursued with consider- 

 able success. 



Grouse-driving is a sport to which belong the 

 special features of safety in this — that by reason 

 of the shooters being placed wider apart than in 

 other modes of shooting, there is less danger of 

 accidents from each other's guns ; except in the 

 case of two shooters being stationed in the same 

 battery. 



In another work, entitled Grouse- 

 Shooting and Deer-Stalking, and published 

 only two years ago, appear these some- 

 what surprising statements : — 



If anything could make driving popular on 

 Scotch grouse moors, it is bad weather. 



Were as much time and money expended in 

 the hand-rearing of grouse as on pheasants, we 

 should more seldom hear of bad grouse years, in 



