Valley of the Severn, near Willey. 



INTEODUCTION. 



A SIMPLE reading of the history of the earth is 

 sufficient to show that hunting is as old as the hills 

 — not figuratively, but literally ; and that the 

 hunter and the hunted, one furnished with weapons 

 of attack, and the other with means of defence, have 

 existed from the earliest periods of creation to the 

 present. That is, the strong have mastered the 

 weak, and in some instances have fallen side by side, 

 as we see by their remains. In the economy of 



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