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that represents 4,140 visitors to Scotland for the fishing. Their 

 expenditure may be proportionately less than the shooting guests', so I 

 will put it at £20 each for the month, against £10 allocated to the 

 shooters for a week or ten days. We then arrive at £82,800 as the 

 sum spent by the Waltonians. 



In round numbers the expenses of the lessee for a season's shooting or 

 fishing in Scotland are equal to the rent he pays. 



I shall now, as I did with Hunting and Racing, for the convenience of 

 my readers, tabulate together the 



Cost of Shooting and Fishing in Scotland. 



Shooting. 



Rentals of tenants recorded and estiaiated ... £757,000 



Wages of keepers and gillies 478,500 



Gratuities to shepherds 11,000 



Keep of dogs for four weeks ... ... ... 6,500 



Expenses of guests 396,000 



Do. tenants of small shootings ... 35,000 



Total cost of Shooting in Scotland ... £1,684,000 



Fishing. 



Rentals of tenants recorded and estimated ... £38,500 



Wages of gillies 13,500 



Expenses of guests 82,800 



Total cost of Fishing in Scotland ... £134,800 



Grand total cost of Shooting and Fishing in — 



Scotland £1,818,800 



This table refers only to Scotch grouse and mixed shooting, deer- 

 stalking, and salmon fishing ; but it does not include quite all the 

 lowland sport. Neither is trout fishitig included, on which a vast 

 amount is spent in Scotland, but no rent is charged. 



It is to be observed that I have taken my basis from the returns given 

 only by Mr. Watson Lyall. He is but one of a great many agents for 

 the letting of moors and forests, and may have given only the properties 

 on his own books. If, therefore, he has not included all the shootings 

 and fishings in Scotland, of course my estimates are the more under 

 the mark. I think, however, he gives practically them all. 



What may be the amount spent all over England, Ireland, and Wales 

 upon grouse, partridge, and pheasant shooting, salmon and trout fishing, 

 not to speak of rabbit, cock, duck; and snipe shooting, I have not so 

 ready a means of calculating as I have had from the statistics given in 

 the SportsmavJs Guide. 



However, to carry out my programme I shall cross the border, but I 

 must give an explanatory introduction. 



I don't know if the rentals of shootings and fishings outside Scotland 

 figure as much as those paid in Scotland. Perhaps they do not. 

 Partridge-shooting is not as costly sport as grouse-shooting. At the 

 same time enormous rents are paid in Norfolk, Cambridge, and 

 other crack counties; some run up to 5s. and 6'. an acre. On the 

 other hand very good partridge-shooting can be got elsewhere for Is. 

 an acre or less. In Ireland long ago I had ground for next to nothing 



