WILD SCENES 



IN A 



HUNTER'S LIFE. 



CHAPTER I. 



HUNTING AMONG THE ANCIENTS. 



UNTING, properly speaking, is> "the 

 pursuit of four-foeted beasts of game." 

 " These," says an old writer, " are 

 hunted in the fields, woods, and thick- 

 ets, with guns and greyhounds." F. 

 de Launay, professor of French laws, 

 has an express treatise of hunting. We 

 find that among the earliest civilized 

 nations, hunting made one of their diversions ; and as to the wild 

 ^nd barbarous, it supplied them with focd. The Reman jurispru- 

 ...ence, which was formed on the manners of the first ages, estub 



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