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ST. JOHN'S "Wild Sports of the Highlands," is a work 

 peculiarly attractive, by the unaffected simplicity and honest 

 cordiality which pervade it. The author's hand is evidently 

 more familiar with the rod and rifle than with the pen he 

 gives a blunt country gentleman sort of detail of Highland 

 sport by field and flood, and has an observant eye to the 

 habits of the lower animals, and a kindly regard withal to 

 the objects of the chase, which is ever characteristic of the 

 legitimate sportsman. We extract, with slight abridgment, 



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