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Title: Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931
Subjects: Grouse Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: London : H. Sotheran
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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tant watchfulnessand the additional safeguard that Nature has provided inthe shape of the harmonious blendings of their plumagewith the surrounding objects fail to bafile the attacks ofthe destroyer.-^ 1 In tlie spring of 1888 a colley at Blackmount was observed chasing alarge fox down a liill towards his masters house. James McColl, theforester to whom the dog belonged, happened to be standing outside hisdoor as the two came flying down the hill, and was much surprised to seehow easily his dog, which was at all times a slow animal, rapidly gained onMaster Keynard, who appeared considerably distressed and wdio took the firstopportunity that a large cairn afforded of going to earth. McColl soon hadhis terriers out, and in a short time the pursued one met his fate in amanner that would hardly have received the unqualified praise of Leicester-shire sportsmen. On his carcase being opened, the reasons for his lack ofspeed were apparent. The colley had evidently disturbed him at his dinner,
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o» o & 5 < 5 PTAHMKJAN 159 As tlie stalktT sits disconsolately \vaitin</ for the mistto rise, he is often sunoundcMl liv tiie Ptanni^^an, of whosepresence he was pro))al)ly unaware l)Ut a few momentsUefore. Now tlicy appear to he perched on the rocks onall sides ot liini, and luii^liten, to a certain extent, theoppressive and death-like stillness l»y their harsh thoughn(»t unpleasant notes. l»ui lie sees them not till, per-chance, there occurs a sudden rift in the gloom, and thevhnxk of (hirkness that has enshrouded him is thrownaside and carried away on the wings of the rising ))reeze,to reveal in an instant a picture the surpassing lovelinessof which seems doul)ly enlianced by contrast with tiienuaunfulness of his late surrtjuudings. In the immediateforeground flutter the Ptarmigan, like little white fairies,over the glistening rocks; whilst on the green slopes aregrouped in graceful attitudes the ever lovely forms ofthe children of the mist. Fear and beauty seem embod

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