THE PINNATED GROUSE. 



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strut and boom and provoke each other, until fierce battles begin, and they 

 scream and leap from the ground, and grow very excited indeed. 



The Indian, from his lair, sees all this, and watches the moment when 

 two cocks are fighting with fury. He has his gun in his hand, and fires with 





THE TRAIRIE HEN. 



effect. Indeed, he has killed so many birds in this manner, that they begin 

 to be afraid of coming, and will perch on the trees instead of alighting on 

 the ground. 



There was a time when the pinnated grouse was very plentiful indeed 

 in that part of the world. The hunter of Kentucky hardly took the trouble 

 to shoot them ; and in some places they did a great deal of mischief among 



