HUNTING IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



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HUNTING IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 

 IN no country is hunting so passion- 



/V^ragpRP^^^Hi^ atel y iove< * as in Great Britain. From 

 / ^b^P^^f^f' the earliest period of history, to the 

 present time, the nobility and gentry 

 of England have taken pride in all 

 3*1* -wrt "/**"' tne cur j ous l ore n f the hunter's art 

 7olumes might be written we should rather say, scores of vo 

 .times have been published in that untry, on what is styled by 

 the ancient writers, the " noble arte of vtnerie." To avoid pro- 

 lixity on this part of our subject, we shall, m the next succeeding 

 chapters, give the brief directions of an old writer, on the modes 

 of hunting the various juadrupeds of the chase, both on the 

 Island of Great Britain and on the continent ; reserving the 



