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which sport is almost non-existent on the moors. 

 It has been ascertained within recent years that 

 grouse can be hand-reared even more easily than 

 pheasants. 



Or again, when the author is dealing 

 with the difficulties of collecting beaters 

 for driving on Highland moors, he in- 

 stances the shooting at Moy Hall as an 

 exception, and states that 



. . . the Clan Mackintosh rallies to the flags of 

 its chief on the heather for the grouse-driving 

 campaign, just as it did in days gone by, for war 

 with claymore and dirk, in a manner that might 

 not be commanded even by the gold of an American 

 millionaire. 



Follows the usual sarcasm, in rather 



doubtful taste, about 



. . . driving being fashionable with the swagger 

 shots, who are abletogofrom lodge to lodge on their 

 merits as marksmen. Their shooting costs them 

 nothing, at any rate, and by driving they are 

 enabled to do the largest amount of slaughter 

 with the minimum amount of physical exertion. 



On statements such as these, taken at 

 random from the works mentioned, com- 

 ment is needless ; nor are they quoted in 

 a critical or carping spirit, but because 



