The grouse season promises to be a successful one. The moors are fully let; the sport is all that can be desired; and birds have rarely been more plentiful, Tt may be noted as rather curio ous that not one of the leading Scottish newspapers had a leader on "The Twelfth"; in pre-war times that article was hardy journalistie annual. I. remember a particularly caustic article by Mr. Frederick Harrison, the veteran publicist, who warned all who loved the Highlands to go there before "The Twelfth." "The sacred day arrives," he wrote, "and all the peace and beauty are gone. A compound essence of Monte Carlo, Wiesbaden, and Royat is dished up on the desolate solitude of the Grampians."
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