SCOTCH DRIVING 167 



comes within range, which constitutes one of the most 

 attractive features of grouse driving. 



The opposition of the keepers is, as mentioned 

 above, a serious drawback to the success of driving in 

 some parts of Scotland. With regard to this it seems 

 to me necessary, while making allowance for the tra- 

 ditions under which they have been brought up, 

 and their dislike of change, not to lose sight of cer- 

 tain interested motives which generally underlie their 

 hostility to the new system. Scotchmen, though as a 

 majority they vote on the Radical side, are by instinct 

 the most conservative of highly civilised races. Their 

 laws and customs, language and dress, show the tena- 

 city with which they cling to the traditions of an 

 ancestry of which any nation might be proud, and 

 a gathering of the clans would to this day evoke a 

 response which probably no cry could raise in any 

 other country. 



In the training and management of dogs the 

 Highlander has always shown himself to be particu- 

 larly apt. He seems in some degree to share the 

 keen instincts and finer qualities of the dog, and the 

 devotion of the animal appears to bring out the gentler 

 and more sympathetic side of the nature of the man. 

 The pointer and setter, no less than the collie, the 

 deerhound, or the ' dandy,' respond more faithfully 



