CHAPTER XI 



STATISTICAL 



Records, per se, have little to recom- 

 mend them ; and the whole business of 

 record making and breaking is somewhat 

 distasteful. Yet viewed in their proper 

 light as an adjunct of sport, and not as 

 an end in themselves, they certainly are 

 not without interest. 



To know that A killed a hundred brace 

 of grouse over his own dogs under normal 

 conditions is an interesting testimony to 

 the progress of the moor; though to know 

 that B, bent on going one better, rose at 

 daylight, and by using four times as many 

 dogs and riding up to every point, suc- 

 ceeded in killing a hundred and one brace 

 on the adjoining moor, ceases to be of any 

 real value whatever. In the one case, the 



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