'OVER DOGS' 119 



from Daniell's ' Rural Sports ' reads quaintly in the 

 present day : 



' To shew the abundance, rather than the exploit 

 itself (which by a Sportsman, must be hoped never 

 will be repeated), the Earl of Strathmore's Game- 

 keeper was matched for a considerable sum to shoot 

 forty brace of moor-game in the course of the i2th of 

 August upon his Lordship's moors in Yorkshire ; he 

 performed it with great ease, shooting by two o'clock 

 forty-three brace ; at eight in the morning, owing to 

 a thick fog, he had only killed three birds, however the 

 day cleared up by eleven, and the work of slaughter 

 went on rapidly.' 



What would the Rev. Mr. Daniell have said could 

 he have lived to see the bags more than once of over 

 i, ooo brace in a day which have since been made on 

 this very ground, ' his lordship's moors in Yorkshire,' 

 the now famous Wemmergill and its neighbours ? 



We hope forty brace of moor-game in a day may 

 often be killed again ; but it is a good bag even now to 

 one gun over dogs, and no doubt there will always be a 

 sufficiency of men able and willing to do it without 

 forfeiting the title of 'sportsman.' 



