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whom poor Moi-k had shortly before prosecuted, either 

 under the game laws or for making free with timber, and 

 who had been heard to vow vengeance against him, was 

 at once arrested, and the proofs of his guilt being strong, 

 was at the subsequent trial condemned to lose his head. As, 

 however, the evidence on Avhich lie was convicted was 

 only circumstantial, whicli by the Swedish law (in capital 

 cases, at least) is insufficient, unless the culprit himself 

 admits his guilt, which this man refused to do, the sentence 

 could not be carried out. But lie was detained in prison 

 for several years, during which no exertions were spared 

 by the clergy and others to induce him to confess the 

 crime with whicli he was charged, but altogether unavail- 

 ingly. At length, however, whether owing to doubts about 

 his guilt or other cause I know not, lie was restored to 

 liberty, and is now, I am told, alive and flourishing. 



During the autumn the Fogel-Hund, literally " bird- 

 dog," is, for Capercali shooting, in much greater request 

 than the pohiter. Ilis forte, after flushing the bird, is to 

 " cliallengc " to it wlien "treed," whereby the fowler is 

 enabled to ascertain its whereabouts. The best dogs are 

 said to come from Lapland, such as wei'e used by me in 

 bear-shooting, and of which several are depicted in both 

 my former Avorks. Generally, liowever, the Stofvarc, or 

 hare-dog, for the most part a hybrid kind of harrier, is 

 used for the purpose ; often, indeed, any kind of mongrel 

 which is well trained answers well enough. 



Swedish sportsmen, when speaking of the Fogel- 

 Hund, tell us: — "He should not run hare, at least to 

 any distance. The smaller he is the better, for if large 

 the Capercali is apt to be alarmed and take wing ; and 

 if he be party-coloured it is an advantage, as dogs so 

 marked attract the sjiecial attention of the bird. He 

 should have a good nose, so as to be enabled to wnnd 

 the quarry from a distance ; and when it flies, whether 



