DEER-STALKING. 



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you exercise your art? — I spread my nets, and set 

 them in a fit place, and instmct my hounds to piu'sue 

 the wild deer till they come to the nets unexpectedly, 

 and so are entangled, and I slay them in the nets. — 

 Cannot you hunt without nets ?— Yes ; with swift 

 hounds I follow the wild deer. — What wild deer do 

 you chiefly take? — Harts, boars, and rein deer, and 

 goats, and sometimes hares." 



LIIE r.i.LLO'.V LEEii. 



The slow but certain march of civilization, not- 

 withstanding every effort to the contrary, gradually 



