, 1890-11-13
HUNTING IN SCOTLAND
The Practice Is Universal
Among British Sportsmen.
The ETIQUETTE OF The FIELD
Tho Game Sought in the North
and the Manner of Hunt
ing It

Especial Correspondence of the REVIEW.
GLEN AFFARIc, Scotland, Sept
A.-If, as shown in the preceding
article, $40, 900, 900 Is annually ex'
pended by British sportsmen In
hunting and fishing in Scotland, II
may be easily understood that, oi
the three great British popular days
Derby day, which Is u movable
sporting day, Bankers holiday, on
which day every British subject feels
entitled to his ease and sport, and
the statutory feast-day of the 18th OF
August, the latter, which is the an
nual day dedicated to slaughter ol
grouse, is always rife with the most
intense thrills of anticipatory pleas
ure.
The pent-up yearnings of an army
OF British Nimrods explode on this
day. The very mention of the glo-
rious Twelfth at any other season OF
the year fills their whole beings
with flashes and quivers of hunger
for tho moors and fields. 1t would
be national crisis Indeed that
would compel parliament to hold
over this initial epoch of the sea-
sons outdoor sport. II last week
the social, political and financial
"season" was ut its height; II all
the milords, the honorables this OF
that, and the whole list of artists,
actors, liberators, bankers, manu-
facturers, clerics, scientists and what
nots, whose doings make London
the real center of the world, and
this whole "tlght little island" the
brain and Drawn workshops for
European civilization and progress,
We're at their tensest strainings OF
activities; this week, If 1t contain
the exalting Twelfth" the fore
most people of Great Britain are a
wholly different set of human be-
ings.
There Is now an enthusiasm,
heartiness, geniality and hilarious
ness about the British man that
makes you feel you have misjudged
him. He Is no longer stone. He is
n radiant, generous human. In
justice, this will even apply to the
grave and austere Scotch. High
lows and CATERS, balmorals and
Tam O'Shanters, corduroys and
collarless necks, endless fap-pockets
and suggestions Of TASKS, show this
British man of the hunting season
Off to good advantage besides. His
language Is honest and hearty, his
laugh has, | am sorry to say, more
integrity than the American laugh,
which always seems to be begging a
pardon or casting challenge, and
his face is continually wreathed in
smiles.
THE WORLD SEEMS GOOD
to him, and anybody where he 10.
And therefore, If he spends forty
instead of twenty millions for the
thing which makes him for even a
brief period of the year a bright
faced instead of bear-faced Brlton,
he has not done amiss. After all,
the beggarly brace of grouse, ptar-
migan or pheasants, or the trem.
bling-kneed and skinny deer he has
knocked over with his expensive
fowling-piece, is not so much the
yearly motive which impels him to
immense expense and labor,
Whether or not himself conscious
the impalpable, undefinable witch.
cries OF that sweet nature ever call
ing to man to be bettered, Is what
draws him on. The wide, free
moorlands odorous with countless
flowers and vagrant weeds; the
glorious sides of mountains, endles.
panoramas of scene and color as the
shine and cloud chase each Other
across them; the white wings oi
mountain mist softly Tapping the
grim old peaks; the purple heather
the rocky glens; the stupendous
straths; the feathery waterfalls; the
whipping burns; and above all the
deep and dreamful lochs of Scot
land; these are the British sports.
mans real quarry after all.
For month before the Twelfth
all kinds of preparation are making.
The first eleven days in August al
most give the impression of the
gathering OF an army of militia, ana
on the day itself, and indeed for u
week before, the Princess street sta
ton, Edinburgh, Exchange and
Lime street stations, Liverpool, and
particularly the Euston Square sta
ton of the London ~ Northwest
ern rai ailway In onlon prasen I
most animated scenes. All other
passenger traffic gives way to the
hunter hosts. Horses and heavy
luggage have been sent on by the
goods trains' in advance, but the
platforms are massed with hampers,
pouches, cases of fowling pieces,
dogs, boxes of dogs food, and count.
less paraphernalia of hunting, while
excited groups of kennel-keepers,
masters, servants, "loaders," old
hunters who ats clad in
the toughest and greGsiest of
garments, and excited amateurs
dressed to proclaim their destina-
tion, jostle each other I'm good-na-
tured desperation in extraordinary
efforts TO monopolize the attentions
of porters, guards and trainmen.
From six to eighteen hours bring
them all TO their journeys end; fol
there is no Shooting in the re.
motest part of Scotland which can
not be reached in the latter time
from London.
THE SOCIAL SIDE.
The moorland cabin and the
Highiapd shpplinp which vyara for