280 



THE GROUSE 



Scoring birds killed during 

 drive, 225 



diagram of convenient card 

 for, 226 

 Sheep, 64 



and grouse, 62, 66 



drains, 60 



farming, 84, 85, 92 

 Shooting from butts, 215-219 

 Shooting- lodges, old and 



new, 25 



in 



costly establishments, 25 

 Shooting schools, 199, 200 

 Shootings, number of, 

 Scotland, 27 



in England, Ireland, and 

 Wales, 31 

 Speedy, Tom, 53 

 Sport, antiquity of, 3 



benefits arising from, 31 



feudal origin of, 15, 16 



illicit sport, 18 



implements of, 7 



older sport, 38, 62 



right of exercise of, 17 

 Sportsmen in early times, 

 simplicity of life then, 24 



contrasted with present, 25 



luxuries and expenses, 25 



Squirrel, 53 

 Stoat, 53 



Telegraph wires, 61 

 Trespass, 57 



Unhealthy stock, 119 



Vermin, 45-48, 52-54, 134 

 enumeration of, 47 

 extinction of certain 



varieties, 48 

 over-reduction of, 119 



Warren, 57 

 Water-supply, 59 

 Weasel, 53 



Wild Birds' Protection Acts, 

 48 



motives of protection, 49 



protected birds, 51 



protected eggs, 52 



protests against excessive 

 protection, 49 



St. Kilda exempted, 50 

 Wild cats (Felis catus), 48, 



53 

 Wind, importance of, 213 

 Wire fences, 61 



THE END 



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