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t)y driving ^ is that made by The Mackintosh and party, averaging 

 eight guns, over his own moors, Moy Hall, in Inverness-shire, when no 

 I ss than 2,467 grouse were got on August 21 and three following days, 

 of which 1,222, or nearly ha'f, were gjt on the first day. The Mackin- 

 tosh also made an extraordinary b\g to hia own gun over dogs in 

 August, 1894, but I don't know the exact score. 



In his wonderful performance relat-d at p. 247 Lord Walsingham fired 

 1,510 shots ; once he killed three birds in oce shot and a brace three 

 t'mes, not through means of " browning " or by chance, but by taking 

 them intentionally at the proper instant. 



Guns. — Not many years ago a first-rate gunmaker considered it good 

 business if he sold daring the season a hundred new guns at an average o 

 30 guineas ; now double that number are turned out by several of the 

 good makers, while some of them sell three hundred in a season ranging 

 from 50 guineas to 80 guineas apiece. 



Mr. Winans. — Since I wrote what I did about Mr. Winans at p. 260 

 he has let some of his Highland shootings, and remarkable sport has, 

 naturally, been had over both his forests and moors, upon which, 

 for many years, he had kept at tremendous expense an army of keepers 

 •and watchers without allowing a shot to be fired. 



Deer Forest Commission. — It will be observed how the report of 

 the Deer Forest Commission, which was made this summer, bears out 

 exactly the remarks which I made three years ago about the crofting 

 ■of deer forests and grouse moors as recorded at pp. 261-263. 



Finding their game of injuring the landlords by trying to spoil the 

 shootings in having them turned into farms and sheep walks was being 

 played out, agitators have taken up another means. They now want to 

 have tourists allowed to roam all over the deer forests, knowing well 

 that red deer love solitude and quietness, and being the shyest of all 

 animals, and hating the sight of a man, would fly from any place which 

 would be disturbed by very much less noise than that which is caused 

 by a party of howling and horn-blowing tourists. People can enjoy 

 mountain scenery in abundance elsewhere than upon our Highland 

 deer forests, and I hope it will be many a long year before liberty will be 

 granted them, much less the right, to invade the regions where the 

 aatlered monarchs from time immemorial have enjoyed their long lives 

 in peaceful solitude. At the same time it would be diplomatic and 

 wise if the area of our forests and moors was not further extende-"^. 

 If "Humanitarians" knew what they were talking about they would 

 know that to be scared out of their wits by tourists would be far more 

 hurtful to the feelings of a wild red deer than is death caused instantly 

 by a bullet. 



COURSING. 

 Chapter XVI. 

 Coursing versus Hunting.— When reviewing the edition of my 

 book, which the first publishers sent out in such incomplete style, all 



