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the system, so as to prevent the victim wandering off to 

 die a lingering death, and ultimately become food for 

 the carnivoree. The habit that sportsmen of the United 

 States have of using small-bore arms when in pursuit of 

 large game is much to be deprecated, for the result is, 

 that a great number of the stricken do not fall until they 

 are entirely lost to the hunter. 



In Scotland the red deer is vaunted and his praises 

 sung, for he is truly a noble beast, alike trying the hunter's 

 courage and endurance ; but if Caledonia's rocky glens 

 and heath-covered mountains boast of possessing such a 

 hero, the far distant plains and central plateaus of America 

 have a right to glory, for they feed and shelter a nobler 

 quarry, if size and power constitute such. The New Lund 

 surpasses us in the magnitude of its rivers, mountains, 

 waterfalls, and trees ; in her animal creation, also, she is 

 ahead. Facts are facts ; and when such is the case, the 

 Britishers should surrender with a good grace ; for to 

 contradict, even evince scepticism, would only prove our 

 ignorance. 



But a thought arises in my mind, will the western world 

 long possess those representatives of animal life of which 

 she has a just right to be proud ? I say no, if the work 

 of destruction continues as now, for every border ruffian, 

 every squatter, is allowed to slaughter at his will, and at all 

 seasons, creatures, the possession of which any laud has a 

 right to be proud of. 



To the old mountaineers and Indian traders this animal 

 was known by one appellation, nnd that an erroneous one ; 

 and so constant has become its use, that even among the 



