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tinues unbroken. Once let his figure appear in separate 

 outline and it ceases. 



It is not, however, with the sporting" aspects that we 

 are concerned, so much as with the opportunities for 





Suspicion. 



observation that a cart affords to the naturalist. Rarely 

 is it possible to watch wild birds so close at hand, yet 

 unconcerned— to enter, as it were, into the privacy of their 

 domestic life, as one is enabled to do by this device. In 

 punt-gunning, it is true, and also in stalking, one enjoys, 



