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pony, ever ready with a neigh to welcome his master's 

 re-appearance. Though to revisit these secluded haunts, 

 to re-enact these scenes, may not be my lot, why should 

 they not be the reader's ? If you have courage to dis- 

 charge a gun, you will find abundance to shoot at. If 

 you are a proficient in the art, you will make such a 

 bag of snipe as an English sportsman scarcely ever 

 dreamt .of, embellished with numerous duck, teal, and, 

 possibly, curlew ; and if you are a true disciple of the 

 virgin goddess, you will enjoy more real pleasure than 

 probably ever was your fortune. Go, by all means 

 do not stop to hesitate and I will guarantee you 

 an amount of sport that will induce many a future 

 return. 



Those gentlemen who live in the cities that surround 

 these sporting localities, are well aware of the excellence 

 of the shooting at this season upon the prairies, and 

 make up large parties to have a week or so at the Wilson 

 snipe, erroneously called Jack snipe. In the course of 

 a day's shooting I have met visitors from Louisville, 

 Cincinnati, and St. Louis, marching like companies in 

 skirmishing order, and keeping up a regular fusillade. 

 But so great is the extent of hunting-ground, and so 

 numerous the game, that in each day, over the same 

 beat, no visible diminution can be observed. We do 

 not mean to say that no English sportsman ever made 



