80 SHOOTING: 



There's one thing further, you must not forget,. 

 To bear about you, your certificate. 



Now the accoutrements have been discuss'd, 

 Grouse we'll consider next, as they're the first 

 The law allows the Sportsman to attack, 

 In shape of game ; the British Islands lack 

 Its first variety, now rarely seen, 

 Tho' formerly in Scotland it has been 

 Plentiful the Cock-o'-the-Wood, I mean. 

 This noble bird in Norway's forests dwells, 

 And seldom leaves them for its plains and dells \. 

 Often will strip of all its cones, a pine, 

 'Fore on another he will deign to dine. 

 I've read, that there they're sometimes found 

 So large, they often weigh full fourteen pound. 

 Those I have seen imported, I must state, 

 Have never been of that superior weight ; 

 The hen's much less, in colour diff ring 

 From the male bird : in fact, you'd hardly bring 



