KOUGH SHOOTING. 



Without for a moment decrying the sport 

 peculiar to August, September, and October, the 

 pursuit of grouse, partridge, and pheasant, it 

 may be claimed that a day's rough shooting has 

 charms of its own. It usually comes after 

 Christmas, when the close season is approach- 

 ing, and it behoves a man to make the most of 

 the time left him ; and, what is perhaps more to 

 the point, success specially depends upon a 

 man's knowledge of woodcraft. If he be shoot- 

 ing partridges, he knows pretty well where the 

 birds lie, even if he has no dogs to aid him ; 

 they are marked down, and the sportsman has 

 his chance at them. In covert shooting, again, 

 he goes where he is told to go ; it is the duty 

 of the keeper to so organize matters that — if he 

 only aim straight — he must contribute hand- 

 somely to the result set down in the game-book. 

 But in rough shooting — it always being under- 

 stood that the men know and can trust each 

 other not to do anything rash in the way of 



