GROUSE SHOOTING 



total the late Sir Frederick Milbank contributed 728 in the 

 eight drives : he was using three guns and had tAvo loaders. 

 These bags were eclipsed in 1893 by Mr. R. H. Rimington 

 Wilson and his party, nine guns, on Broomhead moor near 

 Sheffield, on 20th August 1893, when 2648 birds were shot : 

 and this total was beaten by Mr. Rimington Wilson and his 

 party, nine guns, on 24th August 1894, when the bag totalled 

 2748 grouse. On 28th August 1872, Lord Walsingham, shoot- 

 ing alone on Blubberhouse Moor, killed 842 birds in sixteen 

 drives, using four guns (two breech and two muzzle loaders). 

 The total bag for the season on Wemmergill Moor was 17,074 

 grouse killed in 41 days' shooting, the average number of guns 

 per day being about five. 



The largest bag of driven grouse ever made by one gun 

 was that by Lord Walsingham on 30th August 1888. Shooting 

 with four guns and two loaders on Blubberhouse Moor (2221 

 acres), he killed 1070 birds in twenty drives. 



THE GROUSE-SHOOTERS CALL 



Come, where the heather bell, 



Child of the Highland dell. 

 Breathes its coy fragrance o'er moorland and lea : 



Gaily the fountain sheen 



Leaps from the mountain green — 

 Come to our Highland home, blithesome and free ! 



See ! through the gloaming 



The young Morn is coming, 

 Like a bridal veil round her the silver mist curl'd. 



Deep as the ruby's rays. 



Bright as the sapphire's blaze, 

 The banner of day in the East is unfurl'd. 



The red grouse is scattering 

 Dews from his golden wing 

 Gemm'd with the radiance that heralds the day ; 

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