DEER-STALKING. 139 



whooping and holloaing across the sheltered flat, 

 on to which the luckless sportsman had driven the 

 bulk of his birds, expecting there to '• make up 

 his bag" in the afternoon, and where now he sees 

 them wheeling off in affrighted packs from the 

 unaccustomed sights and discordant sounds ? And 

 what redress has he ? Says the Bill : "In case 

 of any action of interdict, etc, etc., founded on 

 alleged trespass, it shall be a sufficient defence 

 that the lands referred to were uncultivated moun- 

 tain or moor lands, and that the respondent 

 entered thereon only for the purposes of recrea- 

 tion, or of scientific or artistic study." So "'Arry," 

 when challenged as to his business on the sky-line 

 of the deer forest, has only to pull out an old 

 betting-book, which for the nonce he turns into a 

 sketch-book, and proudly proclaim himself to be a 

 "Hartis;" and when questioned on his proceed- 

 ings on the grouse moor, he replies that he's " a 

 recreating of himself." True he is not allowed 

 to carry a gun, and a " blooming shame " that 



