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consequence pass an Act to close that hot-bed of 

 immorality, Tattersall's betting-rooms, and declare all 

 horse-racing illegal ? 



Once more to my theme. Battue shooting and 

 grouse and partridge driving are as a rule the only 

 modes by which game can be satisfactorily killed in 

 England in these days. Space will not admit of my 

 dealing with more than the first of these three, one 

 word only I will say for the two latter. They are not 

 only productive of the prettiest and most difficult shots, 

 but they tend positively to increase the stock on moor 

 or stubble. When shooting over dogs or walking up 

 birds in line, the young birds get killed, the old ones, 

 especially the cocks, escape, a very bad result for the 

 prospects of next year's breeding ; whereas, when 

 driven, these jealous and pugnacious old reprobates 

 lead the way, and are the first killed, to the great 

 advantage of moor or manor. 



Now, of battues there are two kinds, the object 

 being the same in each, but in the execution they are 

 widely different, all depending on the knowledge and 



