ARLY in the season when foliage 
is dense, practice will enable one 
to use ears for eyes and by wing-sound 
determine whether his bird flew right 
or left, high or low, near or far as it 
flushes and departs unseen, as is often 
the case. And often as not when you 
found it again a flash of brown was 
your only glimpse and gun and charge 
had to be swung and guided by the eye 
of faith alone. But when November 
comes to turn the tables all is changed. 
Only the scanty and tattered remnants 
of what was once October’s regal man- 
tle of yellow, scarlet, purple and gold 
are left clinging to the coverts. Frosty 
nights give way to days of clear crisp 
air, stimulating as good wine, putting 
spring in the step and edge on appe- 
tite. No longer do birds plunge into 
and disappear as if by magic behind 
a leafy curtain but rise clearly and if 
in range give the gun its opportunity. 
If missed or out of range the eye has 
a chance to follow and mark the dis- 
tant flight with accuracy. These are 
the days when one surprises himself 
with an occasion double, or runs a 
string of a half dozen singles and the 
taking of each bird becomes a little 
adventure in itself. And one catches 
often now, in the naked wood on quiet 
days, a rare triumvirate of sound, each 
clear and distinct, to fall as sweet mu- 
sic on the ear of the partridge hunter. 
The roar of the flush, the boom of the 
charge and the muffled thud of impact 
of a plump body upon the forest floor 
to tell of work well done. 
Le grouse shooting one tastes the bit- 
ter with the sweet and learns all is 
not skittles and beer in their pursuit. 
There are the days when birds seem 
past all starting, or the few jumped 
afford not a single easy break but tax 
your skill, in most cases, beyond all 
limit. At such times it is well to re- 
member, these hazards are what make 
their pursuit so irresistible and that 
by the law of averages this cannot last, 
but comes again the time when For- 
tune smiles and losses are retrieved. 
And from the moment you enter on 
a sparkling autumn morning the gay 
coverts, fresh of limb and eager for the 
fray, till you limp back at sunset 
wolfish for dinner and broken with a 
delicious fatigue, you have not had one 
dull moment. You may not have been 
firing steadily, one rarely does in 
grouse shooting nowadays, the birds 
may have even been a little scarce, but 
every instant of the day you have been 
buoyed up by an ever lively hope that 
the next moment your heart would be 
gladdened by the thunder of rising 
wings. And when it did, and once more 
you wound up the career of that whiz- 
zing bolt of brown and white, you 
thrilled with a sense of pride and sat- 
isfaction such as comes with the down- 
ing of no other bird. You have a feel- 
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Touring with Raymond 
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(Continued from page 538) 
available twenty-five years ago. Trained 
soldiers can make enormous distances 
under service packs—but the soldier’s 
outfit has half its weight in articles the 
traveler does not need at all. And if 
one goes tramping along, day after 
day, beginning easily, in five to eight 
mile stages, taking care of the feet, of 
the shoulders, keeping clean and com- 
fortable, making sure to have ample 
food every day—and that food of the 
right kind to supply fuel for the stren- 
uous labor of steadfast tramping—the 
heart grows braver, the body more fit, 
and the mind clearer, until the joy of 
living is had, even in mud, even in 
broiling sunshine, and even in the very 
difficulties. 
A certain endurance is inevitable. 
Whether one goes in auto, on a bicycle 
or motorcycle, or on foot, but especi- 
ally on foot or on a bicycle, the strain 
is heavy. For days it increases. The 
novelty sustains one for a week or even 
more. Then the mind confronts the 
fact of hardship. The thoughts dwell 
on trifles. A certain feeling of bitter- 
ness may ensue. “What is the use of 
it?” one asks himself. A smile of ridi- 
cule over a fence, a jeer from some 
passerby, even, may convert one into 
unreasonable indignation, or even sul- 
len rage. The fatigue seems overmuch. 
The physical discomforts increase. 
Mentally, one becomes weary, stale. 
A period of dejection may appear 
that lasts for days. The strange exper- 
ience startles, even shocks, the phy- 
sique and the mind. For me, the sec- 
ond week is the period of trial. A flat 
tire, a heating motor, a blister on the 
foot, a bit of dust in the eye—anything 
may bring one down to almost a blue- 
funk. 
From all that I hear and see,.the 
break lasts about a week, and if one 
survives this week the rest is easier— 
never too easy, but endurable, until 
the day comes when the mere details of 
living fall into the background, while 
the joy of living occupies the thoughts. 
Both the muscles, the stomach, and the 
mind must grow accustomed to the gen- 
erally violent change in the habits of 
living. 
Attending merely to the physical 
wants is not enough. The mind must 
be watched after even more closely 
than the stomach. Probably a student 
of psychology could conceive a train- 
ing for the tourist’s mind that would 
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