112 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



Pennsgrove, on the previous day. by two of the 

 party present. They were served up with their 

 heads on, so that no deception could have been 

 practiced had the circumstances warranted such 

 a suspicion. Brewer has remarked that a per- 

 son, technically ignorant of ornithology, would 

 at once pick out a woodcock from a snipe, from 

 something peculiar in its appearance. Besides 

 the "plumed tibid, the tarvi are much shorter, 

 and shows that the bird is not intended to wade, 

 or to frequent very marshy situations, like the 

 snipe. The plumage of the former is also of a 

 more sombre shade." 



When found in a meadow they are much 

 more easily killed than snipe, and with steady 

 dogs very few ought to escape. This bird, like 

 the snipe, has a remarkably game look ; some 

 sportsmen before consigning them to the bag, 

 display as much fondness over them as the two 

 executioners so admirably described in Quintin 

 Durward, were wont to do over their victims, 

 with this difference, that the latter spoke to liv- 

 ing and the former to dead ears. 



