312 ACCESSIBLE FIELD SPORTS. 



earning a precarious existence by supplying city mar- 

 kets with their victims. Shooting, I insist, invigorates 

 the frame, strengthens the mind, and is, without doubt, 

 a most harmless pleasure, encouraging persons to good- 

 fellowship and unselfish intercourse, inducing all tie 

 good traits of character to be enlarged, and the baser 

 to be depressed ; therefore the facilities for legitimate 

 shooting should be encouraged, and game protected, 

 by such wholesome laws as will enable future gene- 

 rations to enjoy this superlative pleasure. 



