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long wall of timber and branches, in which small passages 

 are constructed at intervals, each being fitted with a 

 snare upon the draw-noose principle, and the black-game 

 they secure in a more wholesale fashion, for these birds 

 flock together and bury themselves under the snow, leaving 

 a vent for air at the top, over which the sporting native 

 spreads a net and scares the birds into it. 



The Forstassistent tells me that in this district there 

 exists a long-standing aversion to the woodcock and snipe 

 as articles of food, and, as he does not share in the general 

 opinion, he gets whatever there may be of this class of 

 shooting pretty much to himself. 



As regards sport upon the Salten and Junkerdal rivers, 

 we killed very little beyond sea-trout, although there were 

 two spates of a couple of feet apiece during our stay, yet 

 perhaps I may venture to describe the rivers from an 

 angling point of view. 



Within a short space of time it is always a matter 

 of considerable difficulty in any country to ascertain the 

 sport a river affords in an average year, as the country 

 people do not value sport by the same standard as does 

 the angler, and it is also frequently to their interests 

 to imagine that the fish in a river are both larger and 

 more numerous than they would appear to be to one 

 unprejudiced. ' 



In Norway, or, at all events, in its more unfrequented 



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