IN THE MONTH OF JUNE 73 
feast at best without remorse ? With quick 
strokes of his strong broad tail he gains upon 
the scurrying fish, in its own element, and 
snaps a morsel out, and sometimes is content 
XXXII: *A THOROUGH SPORTSMAN.’ 
with that! The gull, the cormorant, and 
sea birds of that ilk, take their scaly prey 
intact. The hawk and its congeners, with 
their telescopic eyes, mark from aloft the 
frightened leveret or terror-stricken mouse, 
and often make a meal of feathered kin ! 
