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being scattered. But the wildness of the grouse on this moor is 

 shown by the top scorer getting only about half the bag that 

 some shooters obtained on the Scotch moors of the time. For 

 instance, at Glenquoich Lodge, near Dunkeld, there were killed 

 124^, 1 14, and 88| brace by three guns on the Twelfth ; thus the 

 three guns got 327 brace in the day, and this kind of bag was 

 by no means unusual. In Yorkshire there were numerous bags 

 of 1000 brace, and over, made that season. They occurred at 

 Wemrnergill, Dallowgill, Broomhead, Bowes, and High Force 

 (probably) ; at any rate, at the latter place, there were in 19 days 

 driving 15,484 grouse killed, and at Wemrnergill adjoining there 

 were 17,074 grouse shot for the season. 



Writing in 1888, Lord Walsingham said he thought that the 

 great increase of grouse was to be attributed to the burning of the 

 heather in Yorkshire during the previous twenty-five years. But 



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