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pensate him. However, he will see this sport very well and 

 graphically described in ' ' Barnard's Sport in Norway/' to 

 which work I refer him. 



The Roedeer, as I have before said,, is confined to a few 

 woods in the very south of the country, and being private 

 property, permission must be obtained before any are shot. 

 It is reckoned that in the woods of South Skane upwards 

 of 2000 roedeer are to be found. 



The Wolf. I know no regular method of hunting the wolf 

 carried on here. Those which are killed are either by chance 

 or in skalls. Some are taken in traps and pitfalls, and one 

 plan they adopt is, for three men to drive round a frozen 

 lake at night in a sledge with a pig. They make this pig 

 squeal by pulling his ear, etc., and this attracts any wolves 

 within hearing (for of all animals the pig is most liked for 

 food by the wolf), who come down and follow the sledge 

 often within gunshot. It is very clear that there are not 

 half so many wolves in this country as is supposed. It is 

 only in the winter that they come down into the midland 

 districts, and they are very rare now. I recollect a 

 few winters back three or four prowled around the town of 

 Carlstad, and were often seen, but not one was shot. I 

 observe very few wolf-skins in the winter markets at Carl- 

 stad, among the fox- skins which are brought down by the 

 peasants from the north of Wermland, so I fancy they are 

 not often killed. A wolf-skin here is hardly worth so much 

 as a fox-skin. Except in Lapland, I never saw a wolf in 

 any of my forest rambles. 



The Lynx is also rare, but it is distributed sparingly over 

 the midland forests, and as it is principally confined to the 

 deepest forests, it is not often killed. We have a family 

 at the present time in a forest not far from us, and they 

 have done a good deal of damage. They are not unfre- 

 quently seen, but as yet not one has been shot. The way 

 to shoot the lynx is to follow the spor in the snow with a 

 good hound, when he will often tree. 



The Glutton is almost entirely confined to the northern 

 fells, and it is only by chance that one is killed, except by 



