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PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



timber has been cut off. With beagles they would afford 

 admirable sport but for their habit of seeking shelter when 

 pursued in decayed logs or hollow trees, their claws being 

 so sharp that they can ascend the cavity in the interior of 

 a perpendicular girdling from ten to twenty feet, and it is 

 no unusual occurrence to find a dozen, or even more, of 

 these pretty little creatures in the same retreat. This 

 species is almost unknown in Canada. 



SWAMP HARES. 



The sportsman, wishing to make a bag of them, should 

 Use very small shot, say No. 7, for they require but slight 

 injury to prevent their escape. The season of the year in 

 which the greatest reward for his exertions will be obtained, 

 is in early spring, particularly if the ground retains a 



