SHOOTING THE GROUSE 



I append the best day in each season during Lord 

 Westbury's tenancy : 



1891 A very bad year ; no large bags. 



1892 No shooting, owing to severe frost in May, which 



destroyed most of the eggs. 



1893 | September 6 | 1,807 | 8 



On the adjoining moor of High Force enormous 

 totals have also been reached, the record of 1872, 

 during the Duke of Beaufort's tenancy, showing 15,484 

 birds for nineteen days' shooting. On this moor, as 

 the guest of the late Mr. Clare Vyner, I took part in 

 a wonderful week, averaging over 1,200 birds each 

 day for four days, to only six guns. I had the best 

 drive I have ever seen, picking up 115 birds in the 

 single drive. I had knocked down 145, but owing to 

 pressure of time and much thick bracken near my butt, 

 which in the heat of an August day gave the dogs, no 

 chance, I had to leave thirty birds on the ground, 

 most of which, however, came into the pick-up 

 announced next day. 



It is curious that Lord de Grey should have also 



