CHAPTER VIII 



GROUSE SHOOTING IN SCOTLAND 



AT a certain time of year in every fashionable 

 restaurant "grouse" is set before the 

 guests at dinner. The bird looks very 

 like a badly cooked duck and tastes as though 

 it had been shot too late. Few Germans realize 

 what it is they are eating for Fashion's 

 sake. 



It seems to me it is more satisfactory to 

 shoot this game than to eat it. I have shot 

 it in Scotland. That is some years ago now. 

 I was staying then with one of the big " land- 

 lords " for a grouse drive. 



These English country houses are, to my 

 taste, the most elegant and at the same time 

 the most comfortable places imaginable. In 

 my Indian sketches I have alread}" paid tribute 

 to the wonderful hospitality of the Briton, and 

 I should like to mention it gratefully again now. 



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