CONTENTS OF VOL, II. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



Learned Dog and Show-woman — Education of Sporting Dogs 



— Hereditary Instinct of Dogs — Their thievish propensities 

 descend to their offspring — Bad-tempered Dogs — Breaking 

 of Dogs — Their jealousies — Their Hunting alliances — 

 Attachment of a Dog to his Master - - Dog-eating reprobated 



— Bloodhounds — Skye Terriers — Dogs combining against 

 a common enemy — Old Dogs — Singular instance of sagacity 

 in one Page 197 



AVINTER SKETCHES. 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



Grouse ; Hardiness of — Difference of Climate in Morayshire 



— Migratory habits of Partridges — Grubs, &c. destroyed by 

 Pheasants — Ptarmigan — Ptarmigan Shooting during winter 



— An Expedition to the Mountains — Early start — Tracks of 

 Otters — Otter-hunting — Stags — Herons — Golden-eyes — 

 Wild Cat — Mallards — Tracks of Deer — Grey Crows — 

 Eagle — Shepherd's hut — Braxy mutton — Ascent of the 

 Mountain — Ptarmigan — Change in the weather — Dan- 

 gerous situation — Violent Snow-storm — Return home — 

 Wild-duck shooting — Flapper-shooting . . . 216 



HIGHLAND SHEEP. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



Introduction of Sheep into the Highlands — Aversion of High- 

 landers to Sheep; disliked by Deer also — Prophecy — Activity 

 of black-faced Sheep ; instincts of — Mountain Sheep in enclosures 

 — The Plaid; uses of; various ways of wearing; manufactures 

 of; invisible colours — Shepherds — Burning of heather — Natu- 

 ral enemies of sheep — Shepherds' Dogs — Origin of Dogs 241 



