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MAY I.   THE SWEEPS' FESTIVAL.

A Study in Black and White.     *_**  Nice for Next Fare.

REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF SAGACITY IN GROUSE.

To The Field of April 20, Mr. Frederick Milbank wrote about the "Monument to a Grouse Shooter" on Wimmergill Moor. Mr. Milbank considered the number of grouse he had bagged as constituting a "record," and so caused a monument to be erected on the spot sacred to the memory of four thousand brace of grouse shot in six days by five guns with one extra gun on the sixth day. The monument, being erected, scared the grouse away. Of course they read the sad story, held a council, and decided that as long as F. A. Milbank was anywhere about, within shot, they would preserve themselves by avoiding him. Subsequently the monument was removed to Bamingham in North Yorkshire. But the North Yorkshire birds are quite indifferent to this tale from The Hills. They wink the other eye, that is until such time as Frederick A. Milbank shall show them the sort of gun he is, and then they'll be sorry for not having taken warning earlier, unless they possess the sagacity of the grouse of Wimmergill, which resembles that of Mr. Jingle's dog, who read the inscription on the board, "Gamekeeper has orders to shoot all dogs found in this inclosure," and "wouldn't pass it." "Singular circumstance that," said Mr. Pickwick. "Will you allow me to make a note of it?"

THE MODERN BUYER:

Growls of Modern "Masters."

Royal Academy, Burlington House, May 3, 1895.

First R.A.