S12 RcBAL Sports. • [Part II. 



numbers, that some men kill twenty brace, or more in 

 a day. Their haunts are in marshy places, or woods. 

 The shooting of them lasts from the fourth of July till 

 the hardish frosts come. The last we killed this year 

 was killed on the 21.'«/ of November. So that here are 

 five months of this sport ; and pheasants and partridges 

 are shot from September to April. 



383. The snipes are called English siiipes, which 

 they resemble in all respects, and are found in great 

 abundance in the usual haunts of snipes. 



384. The yronse is precisely like the Scotch grouse. 

 There is only here and there a place where they are 

 ibund. But, they are, in those places, killed in great 

 quantities in the fall of the year. 



385. As to tcild ducks and other water-fowl, which 

 are come at by lying in wait, and killed most frequently 

 swimming, or sitting, they are slaughtered in Avhole 

 flocks. An American counts the cost of powder and 

 shot. If he is deliberate in every thing else, this habit 

 will hardly forsake him in the act of shooting. AVhen 

 the sentimental flesh-eaters hear the report of his gun, 

 they may begin to pull out their white handkerchiefs ; 

 for death follows his pull of the trigger, with, perhaps, 

 even more certainty than it used to follow the lancet of 

 Doctor Rush. 



386. The Ploveb is a fine bird, and is Ibund in great 

 numbers upon the plains, and in the cultivated fields, of 

 this Island, and at a mile from my house. Plovers are 

 very shy and icary ; but they have ingenious enemies to 

 deal with. A wagon, or carriage of some sort, is made 

 use of to approach them; and then they are easily 

 killed. 



387. Rabbits are very Jibundant in some places. 

 They are killed by shooting ; for all here is done with 

 the gun. No reliance is placed upon a dog. 



383. As to game-laws there are none, except those 

 which appoint the times for killing. People go where 

 they like, and, as to wild animals, shoot what they like. 

 There is the Common Law, which forbids trespass, and 

 the Statute Law, I believe, of " malicious trespass," 

 or trespass after naming. And these are more than 

 enough ; for nobody, that I ever hear of, warns people 



