FOLLOWING 
THE DEEpT^ 
dreamed of giving a grouse a flying 
chance in the thick woods than of 
flapping his arms expecting to fly him- 
self. Therefore he affected supreme ^y^*^^^''''^^ 
contempt for the method ; and he was 
a perfect actor. When he brought 
his bunch of birds to market his 
admirers pointed with pride to the 
marks of his wondrous skill. Here 
was a bird with the head hanging 
by a thread of skin ; there one with 
its neck broken ; there a furrow along 
the top of a crested head ; and here — 
perfect work! a partridge with both 
eyes gone, showing the course of 
Old Wally's unerring bullet. 
Not ten yards from my hiding 
place he took down a partridge from 
