CHAPTER XV. 



GROUSE AGAIN. A FRESH BEAT. 



WE left later to-day, as merely the black moss 

 and the base of Corrigan had to be gone over, 

 the upper part of the hill and the sloping range to 

 the north being cut out for the next day; and it 

 was about twelve o'clock before we reached the 

 moss. 



Only two guns were carried; Ward and Fred 

 doing the shooting, Major Duncan and I looking on. 



On the level by the burn some coveys were 

 found, and five and a half brace killed before we 

 entered the black moss, besides a mallard and three 

 hares shot by the burn side. 



When we came on the black moss, there could 

 be no doubt that here was a most likely range. 

 The moor extends for abont a mile to the base of 

 Corrigan, the rising ground on both sides thickly 



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