SCOTTISH SPORTS AND PASTIMES. BY HERBERT BYNG HALL, ESQ. AUTHOR OF "THE SPORTSMAN AND HIS DOG," &c. &c. &c. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON: JOHN AND DANIEL A. DARLING. 1850. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND LONDON: Printed by Schulze & Co., 13, Poland-street, Oxford-street. DEM AOKK SCOTTISH SPORTS AND PASTIMES, CHAPTER I. Auspicium melioris ævi." FROM the earliest periods of history, the inhabitants of Great Britain have been celebrated for their chivalry in arms, and not less so for their prowess in the chase. As the love of liberty induced our forefathers to become warriors, in like manner necessity compelled them to pursue, for the means of subsistence, the antlered monarch of the mountain, and the feathered tribe of the woodland. Indeed, the fact scarcely needs comment, that the activity and physical energy acquired from the pursuit of game, comprising every species of out-door amusement termed sport, has, even to the present day, greatly contributed to that success which, under God's blessing, B |