APPENDIX. 



CHAPTER I. 



PRACTICAL HINTS ON DRIVING GROUSE. 



Delightful task ? to rear the tender thought, 

 To teach the young idea how to shoot. 



JAMES THOMPSON (The Seasons, line 1149). 



Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed 

 And batten on this moor. 



Hamlet, Act iii., scene 4. 



[HAT the present craze for large bags of 

 grouse, killed from behind butts or 

 artificial shelter, has revolutionised our 

 ideas of sport as compared with those 

 held by our ancestors, there can be no manner of 

 doubt. The ease with which guns, shooters, loaders, 

 and all the paraphernalia can be carted without 

 any trouble to the ground, and the otium cum 

 dignitate with which a man can ride a pony up to 

 his allotted castle, dismount, arrange his cigars, 

 whisky flask, cartridges, guns, and other impedimenta 

 with the certainty that he will not be dispossessed 

 from a comfortable seat on , his driving stick for 

 some hours, if at all, during the day, has, it is 



