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CHAPTER IV. 



Mode of shooting a small moor — Duty of markers for small moor — 

 Evening shooting — Shepherds to be conciliated and paid for each 

 covey — Likely ground in wet or dry seasons — Water from peat-bogs 

 a source of disease — Grouse disease, bad heather, and impure water 

 — Grouse dying from want of pure water — Drainage of moors — Sug- 

 gestions for water-supply of moors — Young grouse thrive where pure 

 water is available — Long flights of grouse in search of water — Deci- 

 mation of broods from bad water-supply — Supply of pure water on 

 moors — How to find grouse under various circumstances — Flight 

 of grouse — Caprice of grouse in stormy weather — Long flights — 

 Grouse resting at mid-day — Evils of shooting in wet weather — • 

 Sport in wild weather — Hill-side shooting — Mistake of shooting 

 too early in the day — Time to stop shooting — Shooting-boots— 

 Shooting-clothes — Waterproofing of clothes — Evils of mackintoshes 

 — Rheumatism, etc. — Diet and condition — Drinking and thirst — 

 Remedies for thirst — A shooting luncheon — Effect of spirit drink- 

 ing on shooting— Wild birds and hard work — Falcons over wild 

 birds — Heavier guns and charges necessary for wild birds — Choke- 

 bores condemned — Use of concentrators — Long shots at wild birds 

 useless — Thinning moor by driving— Good shots to be secured for 

 grouse driving — Swinging gun at wild birds — A family shot — 

 'Browning' a covey — A day's work at wild birds — Evening luck — 

 Varying size and colour of Scotch grouse — ' The fewer the better ' 

 — Colour of corn-fed birds — Grouse poached in corn-fields — - 

 Anecdote regarding poached grouse — Poachers — Drugging game — 

 Poachers' nets — Poachers' dogs — The use of the drag-net — 

 Sceptical keepers — ' A straight tip ' — Where the poachers come 

 from — Travelling poachers — Honest keepers — Keepers' excuses — 

 'When the cat's away'- — -Trip traps, etc. — Sky-line netting — 

 Contraband goods — Too much of a good thing — Value of English 

 keepers as compared with Scotch — Tactics of English keepers 

 when after poachers — A well-managed affair — Local poachers — ■ 

 Scotch black-game sold out of season as foreign. 



Where a moor Is not very large in extent, or where 

 birds are as liable to cross the march at the beginning 



