CHAPTER XIII. 



Interesting Incidents on a Grouse Moor. 



WE were grouse shooting on Walden Moor, 

 and during the luncheon hour Mr. Winn, 

 being disappointed with the bag, asked 

 me to arrange the drives for the afternoon ; say- 

 ing, he really must have another fifteen brace. 

 I undertook to do it, and, having started two or 

 three of the drivers, I told the guns they must be 

 ready to start in a quarter-of-an-hour, as I had 

 put the low part of the moor into one drive. 

 Several of them, no doubt, thinking I had made 

 a mistake, said I ought to have made two or 

 three drives instead of one. I said, I thought we 

 could kill fifteen brace, as required, and, if they 



