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Show U. S. HUNTERS PAY HIGH RENT FOR SCOTCH HOMES there are plenty of pheasants, black game and snipe. Four large estates are still with out shooting season tenants, among them being the famous Thurso cnatle for which $10,0(10 Is being asked. King Oenrge hns often stayed at Thurso for the sensnn and has marie some of Ids most famous "bags" there. i Stately Houses in Demand as Grouse Season Opens. London. Hundreds of thousands of seres of Scottish moors and scores of the most stately Scottish homes have been rented at fabulous prices by wealthy Americans und Britishers fr the forthcoming grouse shooting ea Son, In which King (ieorge will participate par-ticipate Ik'rnurd P.arueh and C. II. Murkily of New York are alining the wealthy Americans who have rented estate. and are entertaining large limine par tleH fur the season. I'.ertwnl r.nriieh hag rented the magnificent Kctteresio, In County Klnciu ,lme, h Mackay has taken l'a:;le ;:,,nt, vntj, Iji.ikm acres Of lirnuil Scottish til lofK. They have I a ken over these (mummm ' till bouses cotimlete for iw, or thrc j months, with all their staffs and furniture, fur-niture, lock, stock and barrel. Many members of parliament have also taken "shootings" and agents report re-port that nearly all fhe best estates have heen taken at good rents. Prices for the season are higher than last yenr. according to ihe agents. They attribute this to the high cost of labor nnd upkeep during the empty season. Itents are being mainly based at the rate of per brace of grouse and $l,"0 a stag. wi:n the cost of the house In addition. Some of the smaller ''sho'itlngs" can be hml for ?.Mmi a month, but. as a whole, Scotland la divided Into large Mutes and the' cost of tlies runs Into .ottiellilng owr the figures This is likely to he a good season for g.'iine. innekcejiers report. The breeding scison has heen good nnd i-pofts f, if, nil parts ItxMi lite that |