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very wild, get afew beaters, put the hawk up in a likely place, and 
when she is at her pitch get the grouse up as fast as you can. A 
wide-ranging dog, especially if you don’t mind spoiling him a little, 
is most valuable for this work; but then your hawk should be a 
high-flyer. Consider the matter! If she is nota high-flyer, and 
birds are put up a couple of hundred yards from her, she has uncom- 
monly little chance, especially after August. But, if she keeps a 
hundred yards or more above you, or above the dog, his range may 
be very considerable with great advantage ; and, indeed, the hawk’s 
presence in the air will help to keep the grouse down. With such 
birds as Aurora he might range half a mile, for that matter; but 
then, if Aurora has any fault, it is that she is too good. She, from 
her noble pitch, would fly, and probably kill, grouse sprung acci- 
dentally at a very great distance; she would kill out of reach of 
markers’ vision. The direction would probably be known, and, 
with active men, she might be found in time; but she might not be 
found. Then, unless she comes next morning to the live hack, there 
isachance of good byealtogether. It will be gathered, then, from all 
this that the game must be put up under a good hawk quickly, while, 
at the same time, neither dog nor beater should be so very far off her 
as to make the flight either impracticable or dangerous from its 
distance. 
Markers, I am pretty sure, are necessary in grouse-hawking ; 
certainly they are necessary on anything but a very flat moor—they 
are necessary with me here. The flight is soon over a hill out of 
your sight ; the kill is in some ravine; the bell is not heard till you 
are very near: besides, the flight once over the hill, how do you 
know whether it goes straight on, or turns to the right or to the 
left, or (though this is rarely the case with game) comes quite back P 
Markers may not, and often do not, absolutely see the kill, but they 
know whereabouts itis; and if they see a “ putin,” there they are, 
to get the grouse up again before the falcon leaves the place. Of 
