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On these he soon falls asleep without rocking or song, — 

 sleeps during the entire night, and awakens in the morning 

 fully refreshed and prepared for another day's toil. Thus 

 passes day after day with the true sportsman in the forest. 



Illustrating the health-giving power of active exercise, 

 the author will here briefly refer to a trip which he re- 

 cently made to Shelbyville, Tennessee, in company with his 

 legal friend whose case has already been mentioned ; and 

 here it should be also stated that this lawyer had ter- 

 minated, on the day of his departure for the South, a 

 series of important trials, and was, therefore, in a highly 

 nervous state. This nervous excitability was very marked 

 in all his movements and doings during our journey. 

 We reached War Trace about three o'clock in the morn- 

 ine, rested until six a.m., when we started out with our 

 guns and dogs for Shelbyville, distant from the former 

 place about eight miles. We had determined to spend 

 the day with the quail, which are very abundant in this 

 part of the State, and to bring up in time for the evening 

 meal at the Evans House in Shelbyville. 



It was a warm autumn day, but the excitement of 

 the sport kept us pretty steadily in motion. It was not, 

 therefore, until late in the afternoon when we began to 

 think of food, rest, and shelter; and now, inasmuch as 

 we had made a eood baof of birds, it seemed entirely 

 proper to abandon any further search for game and 

 take the direct route for the hotel, which was reached 

 about five o'clock. The moment we left the fields, en- 

 tered the road, and began to plod along towards our 

 destination, the spirit of the sportsman immediately 



