GROUSE POACHING. 



,O^ pleasurable excitement, to say nothing 

 ^J * of profit, the pick of all poaching 

 is for grouse. However fascinating 

 partridge poaching may be ; however pleasur- 

 able picking off pheasants from bare boughs ; 

 or the night-piercing screams of a netted hare 

 none of these can compare with the wild 

 work of the moors. I am abroad on the heather 

 just before the coming of the day. My way lies 

 now along the rugged course of a fell "beck," 



