BRITISH SPORT PAST AND PRESENT 



Peace in our Highland vales. 

 Health on our mountain gales — 

 Who would not hie to the Moorlands away ! 



Far from the haunts of man 



Mark the grey Ptarmigan, 

 Seek the lone Moorcock, the pride of our dells. 



Birds of the wilderness ! 



Here is their resting place, 

 Mid the brown heath where the mountain-roe dwells. 



Come then ! the heather bloom 



Woos with its wild perfume, 

 Fragrant and blithesome they welcome shall be ; 



Gaily the fountain sheen 



Leaps from the mountain green — 

 Come to our home of the moorland and lea ! 



J. W. C, Sporting Magazine, 1834. 



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