CHAPTER IV.

Routine of Country Sports -- Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, pursued in a different Style to that of our Ancestors -- each its own Season, Apparatus, and Appointments -- English Sportsmen communicate their Knowledge through the Press -- the Extinction of Falconry -- the Perfection of Fox-hunting in this Country -- Manner in which some Old Sportsmen amuse themselves during the Summer -- Favour into which Angling has risen of late years -- our Tourist-Anglers -- Grouse-Shooting: its exciting Nature -- Symptoms of the approach of 12th of August in England, the same as exhibited in Scotland -- Sportsmen on their way to the Highlands by the Packet -- the Contrast between them and Pedestrianizing Students -- Tom Oakleigh’s Description of the Commencement of Grouse-Shooting on the Moors -- other Features of it, both there and in Scotland -- Return from Partridge-Shooting -- a Word with the Too-Sensitive 29