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shall one single feather. Let our covering ' to the 

 present ' be your signal. Bang ! Whew ! What a 

 flutter ! Now take that, and that, and that, and that ! 

 Ha, Hamish, as at the springing of a mine, the 

 whole company has perished! Collect the dead. 

 Twenty-one ! Life is short, and by this compendious 

 style we take Time by the forelock ! " 



RED GROUSE. 



The Red Grouse (Tetrao Scoticus of LinnaBus), or 

 moor-fowl, is well entitled to head the catalogue of 

 British game birds, inasmuch as it is peculiar to 

 these islands, never having been found elsewhere. It 

 belongs to the ptarmigan family, in common with the 

 varieties of its species, under the heads of the caper- 

 calzie and the black cock, as well as the partridge 

 and quail, also individuals of the class Tetraonida. It 



