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sometimes he is in the bag—beaten, but not 
disgraced. 
He is a noble prize. Far be it from me to 
deny the thrill of triumph that comes when 
snipe or woodcock falls to one’s gun. But 
when the bag is laid out, snipe and woodcock 
shrink into insignificance in the presence of 
more handsome and imposing spoils. The 
eye, running along the line, is bound to rest 
upon the jet black magnificence of the old 
blackcock. One must pick him up, weigh him 
in the palm of the hand thoughtfully, and 
compare his substance with that of a turkey. 
And one must spread out and contemplate his 
tail with admiration. For, though I should 
be sorry to disparage a good bag of grouse 
or partridge, one knows that, generally speak¬ 
ing, each bird has been but an incident in the 
day’s sport. The old blackcock is an event— 
a climax. 
For all I know there may still be moors in 
Scotland where large bags of blackcock are 
shot, though the birds are a sadly dwindling 
race. If so, it seems almost a pity that a good 
thing should be too common. Let us by all 
means shoot half a dozen—if we can—in a 
day, but let us still be able to take pride in 
two or three—or even one. For I make bold 
to say that, however poor the sport, no bag 
Is quite without distinction if this hardened 
old warrior be a part of it. 
He has grown wily with age, for his early 
life history gives but little indication of his 
great qualities. Hatched among the rushes 
at the head of some little gully, he is at first 
a delicate and blundering cheeper, often top¬ 
pling into an open drain, losing his mother 
altogether, or drowning himself in a mossy 
pool. And after that, when the period of his 
prodigious growth arrives, I think his brain 
must fail to keep pace with his body in the 
process of development. It is then that one 
comes upon him squatting in a tuft of grass, 
stupid and wide-eyed. He will rise with a 
great fuss of preparation, and get slowly and 
clumsily under way, and I think he has every 
cause to be thankful (did he but know it) 
that the twentieth day of August has not yet 
arrived. 
More by good fortune (and poor marks¬ 
manship, it may be) than by any display of 
intellect on his part, he comes at last through 
the stage of adolescence to the glory of his 
first black feathers. But he has many risks 
yet to run before the comfortable security of 
mid-winter arrives. For along with all his 
tribe, both old and young, he becomes in¬ 
toxicated with a passion for corn. This is 
no youthful folly. Year after year, even to 
the time of his cunning old age, he will forget 
when corn is in question, all his instincts of 
self-preservation, and lay himself open to at¬ 
tack. In the broad light of day, and even at a 
fixed and regular hour, he will leave the safety 
of the bracken, to gorge himself up on the 
nearest stubble. Often he will even neglect 
his customary precaution of appointing a sen¬ 
tinel, while he sets himself to graze like any 
sheep; and that popular delicacy in Scottish 
country houses—“young blackcock off the 
stubble”—is the result. 
But let us hope that he survives to assume 
little by little his full court dress of black, 
beside which his spouse in hodden grey looks 
so plebeian—to live his merry life, with the 
pine-woods for shelter, and the hilltops for 
freedom, with his feeding ground in the 
hollows, and a favorite rock upon the sky¬ 
line to sun himself on in the still days of 
summer. He is little troubled by domestic 
cares, completely ignoring his several families. 
For he prefers to find companionship among 
the members of his own sex. He will join at 
last one of those historic packs of old cocks, 
which go on from generation to generation. 
They will take up their residence for the 
autumn, to the number of fifteen or twenty, 
in a little wood of gaunt old spruce trees on 
the moor, where the covert is not too thick 
for an effective outlook. The hill-rises behind 
them, and the march fence runs along the 
burn below, so they may cross over and avoid 
the guns, from whichever side these may ap- 
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