King Edward VIIas a sportsman . DEER DRIVE AT BALMORAL From a Painting by ARCHIBALD Thorburn. Balmoral from Mr. Alexander Haldane Farquharson of Inver-cauld. The moor lies on the north side of the Dee,and is easily accessible from Balmoral, a road practicablefor wheeled traffic leading right on to it. Owing tothe fact that the King was not in residence at Balmoraluntil September, and that his stay was limited to twoor three weeks, the moor was not shot with any ideaof producing big bags. It was looked upon rather asan outlet for an off-day from the deer at the end ofSeptember or the beginning
King Edward VIIas a sportsman . DEER DRIVE AT BALMORAL From a Painting by ARCHIBALD Thorburn. Balmoral from Mr. Alexander Haldane Farquharson of Inver-cauld. The moor lies on the north side of the Dee,and is easily accessible from Balmoral, a road practicablefor wheeled traffic leading right on to it. Owing tothe fact that the King was not in residence at Balmoraluntil September, and that his stay was limited to twoor three weeks, the moor was not shot with any ideaof producing big bags. It was looked upon rather asan outlet for an off-day from the deer at the end ofSeptember or the beginning of October. It wouldnot, therefore, be doing justice to the moor, which isa very fine one, to take account of the total numberof grouse bagged in the season. Individual daysproduced about a hundred brace, the party usuallyconsisting of eight guns, and the birds being former days King Edward, as Prince of Wales,rented a far larger extent of grouse moor on the sameestate, and he often indulged in the delightful, butnow rare, sport of shooting over dogs. Though King Edward was hims
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