Word: heather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heather v. Cormorant...
Rested and refreshed after a week-end at Lossiemouth, Ramsay MacDonald flew back to London last week with a large bunch of white heather in his buttonhole and posed for his picture in the garden of No. 10 Downing St. Secretary for Dominions & Colonies James Henry Thomas begged a sprig for good luck, so did Stanley Baldwin and the rest. When every buttonhole burgeoned with Ramsay's white heather, shutters clicked at the entire National Cabinet...
Scotland, where the sport is best organized, has some 3,000 heather-covered, grouse-infested moors for rent. In prosperous years the gross income from rents has run to $7,500,000. Payments to lodge keepers, beaters and handy men total about the same. An average sized moor costs a hunter all told about $5,000 a month for the season. That is, in Scotland. If he merely wants grouse and is willing to forego social eéclat, he may go on to the Orkneys. There he may rent a stand for as little as $300 cash...
...beater falls, other beaters drag him away; when a grouse falls, the ground huntsman lets a dog out of the blind. Some huntsmen use setters, some pointers, some cocker spaniels. The dogs are trained to retrieve dead birds and catch wounded ones that are scrambling off in the heather...
William Saunders, steward on the Lucilla, was drowned. Tom Wright, seaman on Lord Waring's cutter White Heather, had both his legs broken in a squall. Three other yachts were dismasted or overturned. Britannia was kept out of the races one day with a split mainsail...