AN AUGUST MORNING 



" Unfrequented woods 

 I better brook than flourishing peopled towns." 



— "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." 



August is associated with grouse-shooting in 

 the minds of most people, the appearance of the 

 game-dealers' windows early on the morning of 

 the glorious Twelfth telling even to the man 

 who knows least about sport that the shooting 

 season has begun. But if one were to ask the 

 " man in the street " when the hunting season 

 began he would answer — if he answered at all 

 — on the i st of November. 



Yet many a cub has heard the cry of hounds 

 before the first grouse has fallen a victim to a 

 charge of number five, and, except in late 

 countries and in late seasons cub-hunting is 

 pretty general by the middle of August. 



There is a peculiar charm about August hunt- 

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