280 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



spot cannot be much changed, for it is only seven 

 years or so since I was there, and it is some distance 

 from railroads; but even supposing the game be 

 reduced one half, then there would be ample left to 

 induce me to go many a long and weary mile to 

 - revisit it. My old shooting companion and very dear 

 friend, Nathaniel West, a year or two since was still 

 residing at Kent, Indiana, not many miles from 

 the Irequois. If the reader be of the right sort, id est, 

 willing to do a fair day's work for a fair day's sport,, 

 and acknowledge that there are as good countries in 

 the world as our own, let him call upon him, and he 

 will return satisfied that America can and does produce 

 as good shots and sportsmen as England. 



