But let him once more explain himself in his own words.

"I delight in a mountain walk when I must work hard for my five brace of grouse.

I see no amusement in dawdling over a lowland moor where the packs are as thick as chickens in a poultry-yard.

I like better than most things a day with my own dogs in scattered covers, when I know not what may rise--a woodcock, an odd pheasant, a snipe in the out-lying willow-bed, and perhaps a mallard or a teal.

A hare or two falls in agreeably when the mistress of the house takes an interest in the bag.