HINTS FOR AMERICAN SHOOTING. 309 



I remember in the month of November, in Newton 

 County, Indiana, killing over a dozen in this manner, 

 in less than an hour, when waiting for wild duck. Pot 

 hunters and game dealers' emissaries have numerous 

 and successful ways of destroying this noble bird all 

 the year round; but with their shameful practices I 

 have nothing to do, hoping that all who pretend to or 

 appropriate the name of sportsmen in America, will 

 show their disapproval of such outrages by hunting 

 from a neighbourhood, wherever they have influence, 

 these ignoble slaughterers, who will, more than aught 

 else, tend to ultimately banish from the accessible 

 grounds one of the handsomest and largest of the 

 grouse family. 



