GENERAL AND OVER DOGS 151 



Sutherland, on the Western islands and 

 adjacent mainland, grouse lie so close all 

 the year round that driving is quite out 

 of the question ; while, by prolonging 

 sport for a month on end, instead of 

 compressing the shooting into a few days, 

 this system will never want followers 

 among those who come to pass away 

 their autumn holiday. 



It is not proposed to enter here into 

 any detailed description of shooting over 

 dogs, for it is a branch of sport wherein 

 no further advance is humanly possible, 

 and the methods of a hundred years ago 

 differ in no whit from those of to-day. 



The literature on the subject is 

 exhaustive and complete ; and the few 

 notes which follow should suffice to 

 indicate the methods of procedure. 

 Shooting over dogs is essentially a sport 

 for not more than two guns. On many 

 moors it becomes murderous to have 

 more than one shooter on a fine day, 

 and on such moors the dogging beats 

 ought to comprise a large stretch of 



