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to rival it. Further, the statistics of 

 a number of moors over a period of 

 years are of real value. They rouse 

 no desire to outshine others in indi- 

 vidual performance, and while they serve 

 faithfully to mark any advance in this 

 branch of sport, they can but act as a 

 wholesome incentive to others to earn new 

 rewards by bestowing more care and 

 attention on their own moors than they 

 have heretofore received. 



A certain historical fitness attaches to 

 the earliest record of shooting the grouse. 

 Among the present generation, Mr. Rim- 

 ington Wilson of Broomhead has justly 

 earned an unrivalled reputation alike for 

 his science in managing a moor as for 

 his skill in the butts. 



It was another Wilson of Broomhead 

 to whom, in the middle of the seventeenth 

 century, is attributed the distinction of 

 being the first to shoot grouse on the 

 wins:. The results on this wonderful 

 little moor of but 4000 acres have been 

 too often quoted to bear recapitulation. 



