Utility and Economy of Birds 



introduced into Parliament in 1915 to allow 

 of GROUSE being shot on August 5th instead 

 of the 1 2th, but, after being passed by the 

 House of Lords, it was thrown out by the 

 Commons amid cries of " We want to shoot 

 Germans, not GROUSE. " The season 1915-16 

 proved exceptionally good for GROUSE. At 

 Abbeystead, in Lancashire, the record bag 

 of 2,929 was obtained by eight guns on 

 August 1 2th, and reports from all parts of 

 the country testified to the superabundance of 

 GROUSE. But so great was the difficulty in 

 getting drivers, and even guns to shoot, that 

 I know of one celebrated Yorkshire moor, 

 usually let for 4,000 per annum, for which 

 but 100 was offered, and the would-be 

 tenant afterwards heard that had he offered 

 150 he would probably have got it. In 

 Westmorland over one hundred boy scouts 

 were employed as GROUSE drivers in August 

 1915. The prices for GAME in Leadenhall 

 Market were nothing unusual. In November 

 1915 it was asked, in the House of Commons, 

 whether, in view of the reduction in the 

 amount of cereals to be raised in the United 



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