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neither grouse disease nor heather-burning has as 

 yet swept off the game. There are many places on 

 these fells, within the pale of civilization, where a 

 party could pitch their tent and live quite as com- 

 fortably as on the Scotch moors. In the matter of 

 £ s. d. they would most probably be gainers ; and 

 if they only chose a good district, I am certain 

 that they would find as good sport both for the 

 gun and the rod as in any part of North Britain. 

 There would not be half the trouble in the jour- 

 ney that they might anticipate; in fact, we can 

 reach the Dovre-fell from Christiania by rail and 

 steamer ; and I should say that any of the fells a 

 little north of Sneehatten would be good shooting 

 ground. The worst part of it is, their game 

 would be little or no use to them ; and there is 

 •something repugnant to the feelings of the fair 

 sportsman in shooting game merely for the sake 

 of slaughter. But as we read of men paying about 

 £90 per year for a Scottish moor, and getting in 

 return fifty brace of grouse, I fancy these shootings 

 would be quite on a par with that ; for out of fifty 

 brace, a man, if he treated himself to grouse for his 

 dinner when on the moors, would have very little 

 left to send to his friends, while the shooter here 

 would at least be able to supply his own table and 

 have much better sport, without paying any rent. 

 The English salmon fishers have already taken the 



