BLACKGAME 



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Let those then who must, from want 

 of time or other reasons, shoot their 

 blackgame, as the law allows them, in 

 August and September ; but let those 

 who would see our noblest and wildest 

 game-bird at his best, wait till the first 

 snows are on the hills, and the hoar-frost 

 lies white on the heather, till — 



Bright October is come, the misty bright October, 

 Bright October is come, to burn and glen and 

 cottage. 



