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operandi, and the object of the hunter is to get a killing 

 shot, not to ride across the open to a long and slashing 

 run, and to be in at the death, when the quarry is pulled 

 down by the pack at the end of a gallant chase. Bears 

 are also hunted in the same style with packs of blood- 

 hounds in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, but there 

 the rifle does the execution, and the slaughter of the game 

 by that instrument, not the rapture of the pursuit, is the 

 end and aim of the pursuer. 



The only sport which bears any considerable analogy 

 to hunting, as it is practised in Great Britain, is the 

 coursing of the stag or elk with greyhounds, as it is, 

 within the last few years, beginning to be considerably 

 practised in some of the western prairie States; for in 

 that, as in the English chase, the pursuit of animal by 

 animal, the hunters and the hunted both, for the most 

 part in full view, and the keeping them in sight by the 

 speed of horses and by skill and daring in equestrianism, 

 are the sources of enjoyment and the ultimatum to be 

 obtained. 



Still, this phase of the sport being yet, as it were, in 

 its infancy, few hounds of the peculiar race requisite being 

 thus far introduced, and the pursuit itself rather excep- 

 tional than of common practice, it must be admitted that 

 hunting, in the European, and more particularly British 

 sense of the word, is not an American field sport. The 

 pursuit of the larger animals of game, where they exist, 

 as the deer, the bear, the elk, the moose, the cariboo, and 

 perhaps I may add, the turkey; although it is usually 

 known in common parlance as hunting, is not properly 



