LEAVES FEOM A GAIME BOOK. 109 



Going south again, I had five days at Balls Park, 

 during which time we got just 100 brace of birds, 

 and then the 14th of September found me again at 

 Invermark, our party including Martyn Kennard and 

 G. E. Gladstone. On the 16th and 21st we had grouse 

 drives, and on each of these occasions I was unlucky 

 enough to draw a bad number. On the first day there 

 was a very high wind, which sent the few birds that did 

 come to the butts at a pace requiring very good shooting 

 to stop them. As hardly any birds came to my butt, 

 I began to count the shots, and when I ceased it had 

 taken just 186 cartridges to put exactly sixty birds into 

 the bag. The first drive directly down wind took 

 seventy -three cartridges for fifteen birds ; at the second 

 and third drives, on a cross wind, sixty-seven shots 

 brought in a return of twenty-five birds ; while the fourth 

 and fifth drives, nearly directly up wind, required only 

 forty-two discharges for twenty birds ; and a comparison 

 of the result of the last drives, as compared with the 

 first one, will open the eyes of my readers to the vast 

 difierence there is in the speed of any bird flying 



