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CHAPTER V. 



Shooting small moors — Wildness of grouse progressive — Wildness of 

 grouse due to undue destruction of hawks — Overstocked moors — 

 Shooting V. sheep-farming — Value of moors when let for shooting 

 — Heather-burning — Sheep v. grouse — Old heather a cause of 

 disease — Black-game shooting — Driving for black-game — Curiosity 

 of black-game — Black-game and roe-deer — Good stags — Danger 

 from stags when breaking covert — Shooting-cloth and where to get 

 it — Shooting over dogs — -Sport v. slaughter — Bastard sport — Scotch 

 shooting in 1858 'sport' — Scotch shooting in 1862 'slaughter' — 

 Good dogs badly handled — System of breaking adopted by Scotch 

 keepers — Trained dogs — The silent system — Author's pointers — 

 Foxhound blood in pointers — Use of the check-cord — Training to 

 hand — Checking and quartering — Hand-working — Breaking off fur 

 — Dogs, when at lessons, to be kept hungry — Results of severe 

 checking- — Shy dogs — Use of biscuits when breaking dogs — Meat 

 for pointers and setters not advisable — Restoring confidence in over- 

 checked dog — Breaking to gun — Catching young birds by hand for 

 dog — Shyness of over-bred dogs — Dogs easily trained — Jealousy of 

 dogs — Value of jealousy in dogs — Author's dog Bosco — Young 

 pointers and setters should be ' walked ' — Want of dash in dogs — 

 Training of nervous dogs — -P^'ils of firing too close to nervous dogs — 

 Accident to dog belonging to author — Pointers ' at walk ' — Care ne- 

 cessary in selection of farmers to take puppies 'at walk' — Running 

 riot on ground game — Liberty allowed to spaniels 'at walk' — Man- 

 agement of young retrievers — Value of ' walking ' young setters — 

 Use of whip condemned — Punishment for refractory dogs — Dogs 

 more easily trained on grouse than on partridges — Author's Laverack 

 setters. 



Unless a moor is small and surrounded by well- 

 stocked shootings, it should not be shot oftener than 

 three days a fortnight ; under such circumstances, 

 however, great liberties may be taken with it without 



