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panying a cart and with your gun concealed, you may 

 sometinies put them off their guard and kill one ; and 

 in places where shepherds are frequently seen by them 

 carrjdng hurdles, the shooter concealing his gun behind 

 one may succeed in getting within shot. 



Perhaps the greatest novelty of all the edibles ever 

 cooked in England was a couple of wild turkeys shot on 

 the 4th December 1856, in Canada West, full 180 miles 

 beyond Toronto, to which town they were brought by a ' 

 party of hunters on the 6th, found in the forest border- 

 ing on Lake Huron. Mr. Stanbury, who resides in 

 Canada, purchased two turkeys in their feathers, and 

 started the same afternoon for New York, a distance of 

 nearly 600 miles. On the evening of the 10th he em- 

 barked in a steamer for Liverpool, arriving in the Mersey 

 about midnight on the 19th. From Liverpool Mr. Stan- 

 bury proceeded to London, where he presented one of 

 the birds to a friend, and the other he forwarded on 

 Monday by rail to his sister, Mrs. Hawkins, of the Rail- 

 way Hotel at Weston-super-Mare. The bird weighed 

 1 9 lbs. when trussed. On Christmas Day Mr. Stanbury 

 dined with Mrs. Hawkins, when the Canadian turkey, 

 which had been brought some 5000 miles since shot, 

 formed an attractive dish upon the festive board. It 

 was in prime condition and of most delicious flavour, 

 very similar to that of the English pheasant. Such are 

 the prodigies that can now be performed by steam by 

 land and sea. 



