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is, but he'll take care that no one else shall do 

 so to any effect. The law allows him to go where 

 he likes for the purposes of scientific study. His 

 special study just now is ornithology, and he is 

 here seeking knowledge of trie-habits, and especially 

 the flight, of grouse ; or, of .course, if these resources 

 fail, geology will furnish him with endless "de- 

 fences," so that eventually, after resorting to the 

 weak and futile expedient of bribing this particular 

 "'Any" to go away and pursue his scientific re- 

 searches, or study art elsewhere, with the only 

 effect of multiplying the artistic or scientific breed 

 to an alarming extent in that district, the wretched 

 proprietor or lessee will have to give up, the one 

 his profit, the other his pleasure, at the bidding 

 of the senseless sentimentality of fanatical socialims, 

 and at the sacrifice of hundreds of honest thousands 

 of pounds sterling which Scotland now annually 

 receives from English sporting enterprise. 



