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whooping and holloaing across the sheltered flat 

 on to which the luckless sportsman had driven the 

 bulk of his birds, expecting there to " make up 

 his bag " in the afternoon, and where now he sees 

 them wheeling off in affrighted packs from the 

 unaccustomed sights and discordant sounds ? And 

 what redress has he ? Says the Bill : " In case 

 of any action of interdict, etc., etc., founded on 

 alleged trespass, it shall be a sufficient defence 

 that the lands referred to were uncultivated moun- 

 tain or moor lands, and that the respondent 

 entered thereon only for the purposes of recrea- 

 tion, or of scientific or artistic study." So "'Any," 

 when challenged as to his business on the sky-line 

 of the deer forest, has only to pull out an old 

 betting-book, which for the nonce he turns into a 

 sketch-book, and proudly proclaim himself to be a 

 " Hartis ; " and when questioned on his proceed- 

 ings on the grouse moor, he replies that he's " a 

 recreating of himself." True he is not allowed 

 to carry a gun, and a " blooming shame " that 



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