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two, at the appointed locality, finding everything 

 in readiness to your hand ; guns loaded for you, 

 if such is your practice ; a gamekeeper fraught 

 with every necessary information ; dogs waiting, 

 with relays when wanted ; to say nothing of 

 the well practised servant with everything ready 

 in the way of refreshment when called for, 

 from bottled porter to marischino, from peregaud 

 pie to the plain sandwich ; you have only to 

 doff your great coat, and a waive of the hand 

 sets perhaps a hundred pounds worth of 

 dogs' flesh going. This is all very imposing, 

 very attractive, and must be highly gratifjdng 

 to the possessor of such luxurious way of doing 

 things. 



The grouse shooter has found unwonted 

 pleasure in the pursuit of late years, (quere) 

 Why is this? Grouse were as wild, inhabited 

 the same districts twenty years since as they 

 do now, the pursuit was equally wild and 

 exciting then as now. Is it not that Balmoral 



