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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 2lst of November. So 

 that here are jive months of this sport ; and 

 pheasants and partridges are shot from Sep 

 tember to April. 



383. The snipes are called English snipes, 

 which they resemble in all respects, and are 

 found in great abundance in the usual haunts 

 of snipes. 



384. The grouse is precisely like the Scotch 

 grouse. There is only here and there a place 

 where they are found. But, they are, in those 

 places, killed in great quantities in the fall of 

 the year. 



385. As to wild ducks and other water-fowl, 

 which are come at by lying in wait, and killed 

 most frequently swimming, or sitting, they are 

 slaughtered in whole 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. When 

 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. 



