"Well, one day, my brother and I went forth to shoot sand-grouse, tuloor, chikor, chinkara and perchance ibex, leaving behind this black body-servant Moussa Isa, the Somali boy, because he was sick.

Can you come and eat grouse?

Yet in the midst of this hearty winter the sun shines warm at times, calling the Douglas squirrel to frisk in the snowy pines and seek out his hidden stores; and the weather is never so severe as to drive away the grouse and little nut-hatches and chickadees.

"You turned back the grouse and spoiled the beat.

No one struck at the adder or tried to catch the mother grouse as she ran back and forth with her little peeping birdlings.

With such a gun the Jam hoped to get better shikar when sitting on his camel and circling round the foolish crouching grouse or tuloor, and firing at them as they sat.

"After the lark came the grouse, who had flown over the midlands.

Finally, having satiated ourselves with their beauty, we started on the return journey, which was made without incident, except that we disturbed a hen grouse with a fine brood of little ones about the size of a valley quail.

"Fetch me a willow grouse or a lemming, do you hear?

We flushed a big blue grouse with a brood of little ones, and at length another big one.

On either side of him ran a lynx and an adder, and right beside the snake fluttered a mother grouse who was hurrying along with her little downy chicks.

why, I forgot the grouse; they can have the grouse!"

He watched, with absorbed delight, the deft, sure motions of the girl as she fried the grouse and sliced bread, while Ben himself tended to the coffee.

They gathered the grouse and sped on down to the cavern.

Into a quaint Indian basket of coloured rushes went a roast grouse, barely touched, from the table.

He entertains no sympathy with the cannibal, who judges the flavour of his enemy improved by temporary commitment to a subterranean larder; yet, to be sure, he keeps his grouse and his venison till it approaches the condition of spoon-meat.

"I know nothing of Beauchamp but that he is now in Scotland, chin-deep in heather, killing grouse against time for a bet of some hundreds, which he has persuaded some simpleton to make with him.

And Stevenson, always wise, insists that husband and wife must he able to laugh over the same jokeshave between them many a "grouse in the gun-room" story.

"Covert-shooting is the game, my boy;" he will say, "most difficult thing in the world when the pheasants are tall, and the finest test of a real sportsman," and with that he will miss his twentieth grouse, and call down imprecations on the dogs, the light, the keeper, and his own companions.

So they hurried on unheeding,Noel with his bow and arrows, Mooka with a little bag containing a loaf and a few dried caplin,peering under every brush pile for the shining eyes of a rabbit, and picking up one big grouse and a few ptarmigan among the bowlders of a great bare hillside.

Besides I'd like to teach him how to retrieve grouse.

Mitches, mit'ch[)e]s, the birch partridge, or ruffed grouse.

We scared up two lonely grouse, at long intervals.

They saw the grouse, Franklin's fowl so well beloved by tenderfeet because of their propensity to sit still under fire and give an unsteady marksman a second shot.

"The forest birds selected a grouse, the field birds a lark, the sea birds a gull, the fresh-water birds a loon, and the cliff birds a snow sparrow.