AHEKICAN PAKTKIDGE. 27 



AMEEICAIvT PAETEIDGE. 



(ORTEX VIRGINIENSIS.) 



IF all our countrymen who have traveled abroad 

 or sojourned in foreign lands had done so with their 

 eyes shut, or if not keeping their orbits closed had 

 refused to give their countrymen the benefit of their 

 experience, a useless lot they would have been, and 

 England, as far as progression is concerned, would 

 have been far behind her present advanced position. 

 He who first introduced the idea of crossing our 

 native horse with the foreigner, did an immense 

 public service ; he who introduced the old Spanish 

 pointer, deserves the gratitude of every sportsman, 

 for doubtless our present beauties, with all their 

 speed and sagacity, have much of the blear-eyed, 

 bad-tempered, pottering old scoundrels' blood in 

 their veins ; and still further, to foreign climes we 

 trace the pheasant, the turkey, and so many more 

 valuable animals, that to enumerate them would be 



