Part 1

Transcriber's note:

Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (italics).

FROM THE MOUND POOL.

AFTER A PICTURE BY DOUGLAS ADAMS.]

TWENTY-SIX YEARS REMINISCENCES OF SCOTCH GROUSE MOORS.

W. A. ADAMS.

The Illustrations Drawn by C. Whymper.

London: Horace Cox, "The Field" Office. 346 Strand. W.C.

1889.

London: Printed by Horace Cox, 346, Strand, W.C.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

SEASONS 1863 TO 1888 5 to 86

A HARE DAY 87

REMARKS ON THE OUTCOME OF DISEASE 89

HEATHER BURNING AND DRAINING 95

SURFACE DRAINING 98

DOGS 100

DISEASE 110

WILDFOWL 111

CONCLUSION 112

SUMMARY 113

TWENTY-SIX YEARS REMINISCENCES

SCOTCH GROUSE MOORS.

My grouse shooting days are now past. Increasing years and rheumatic muscles remind me that I have had my time, and a very good time too, so now let younger men take my place and profit by my experience, if it should so please them.

Let us look back on grouse shooting twenty-six years ago. Scotland, so far as regards the sporting of the far north, was then almost a terra incognita.

Railways ended at Inverness, and to get there needed a journey to Aberdeen, and from there by the slowest of slow railways, but quick enough--life was not run at so fast a pace as now.