82 SEAL -SHOOTING. 



English fenman with mud boots and tarpaulins, 

 than of a brogued and kilted Gael. 



The killing of red-deer and salmon has been of 

 late years so simplified by preservation, -and by 

 artificial modes of sporting, that even the Cockney 

 who possesses the talisman (money) will very soon 

 be made free both of the forest and the river. 

 What would the ancient Hillman have thought 

 of forests where the deer were nearly as tame as 

 sheep, and so numerous as to be dwarfed both in 

 size and antlers? With what contempt would 

 he have growled his guttural at the sunk fences of 

 the forest, and the boat-fishing of the Tay and the 

 Tweed, when the pools and streams are so crowded 

 with spring or autumn fish that the veriest green- 

 horn could not escape hooking them ! 



This may be called the luxury of sport, but it 

 is not the pleasure of it, for certainly our best 

 pleasures must all be worked for and earned ; 

 at all events, these lazy and luxurious modes of 

 deer and salmon murder were never contemplated 

 by the Celt, who, in granting his diploma to a 

 mountain hunter, deemed a single head of the 

 famous four quite sufficient to entitle him to it. 



