enough to appear as an optimist on the Game-law 

 question. What I said of English, I might repeat 

 more securely of Scotch sport. The value of game 

 to the country in general materially, from a com- 

 mercial point of view ; morally, from the interests and 

 sympathies it tends to create or maintain between 

 members of different classes is enormous, and since 

 it introduces civilisation and material prosperity to 

 the most remote districts, it is especially so in the 

 case of grouse. 



The Scotch mail, running at lightning speed along 

 its well-laid track, with all its luxuries and scientific 

 appliances, its sleeping or dining cars, its heating 

 apparatus and lavatories, its air-brakes and electric 

 bells, its magnificent locomotives and trusty servants, 

 its priceless freights and distinguished occupants, is 

 the most intrinsically valuable expression of this state 

 of things. 



I ,ong may it continue to run ; long may the healthy 

 attractions of the most picturesque and beautiful <>i 

 llritish sports continue to fill its compartments, and 

 help the dwellers of the far North to share the hard- 

 earned gold of England's wealthier citizens ! 



