84 SHOOTING : 



But if in cover you can drive them straight, 

 You'll stand a chance their death to perpetrate. 

 When the stern twelfth month, the tenth day reaches, 

 The law enacts the Black Game's peril ceases : 

 What more of them 'tis needful to unfold, 

 On finding, when on Grouse I speak, will hold 

 The same for both : of sporting this may be 

 Verily call'd the aristocracy. 



In North of England the Red Grouse are found ; 

 Also in. Wales, in Scotland most abound: 

 The twelfth of August is the fatal day 

 The Sportsman is by law allow'd to slay 

 This class ; a week before this time the roads 

 Are crowded thitherwards with sporting loads 

 Of men, with dogs and guns for sport prepar'd, 

 Which is by numbers on the same moor shar'd ; 

 Both town and country send their motly throng ; 

 Each as his fancy urges, jogs along ; 



