300 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 
those days say to the wholesale slaughter of 
hand-fed pheasants and of driven grouse that 
now goes on? This may be good Shooting, but 
it is not Sport; because it is an essential con- 
dition of sport that fair ‘law’ must be given 
to the game, and this is not the case in battue- 
shooting and grouse-driving.. He was a far 
truer sportsman who told Gilbert White how, 
when the eighteenth century was still young, 
and ‘the beechen woods were much more exten- 
sive than at present, the number of wood- 
pigeons was astonishing; that he has often 
killed near twenty in a day.” Much more con- 
sistent, also, with the true idea of sport is the 
stalking of deer in the treeless forests of the 
Scottish moors; but the Continental method of 
walking up, or of first marking down and then 
lying in wait for wild boar, red deer, and roe- 
bucks in the woods, is a truer form of sport than 
that in which successful pursuit of the quarry 
is usually dependent on rifles having a con- 
siderable range. The stalking of the roebuck 
is certainly one of the most enjoyable forms 
1 We fear we cannot go the lengths that Dr. Nisbet does in 
this matter.—Ebs. 
