HUNTING IN AMEKICA. 18^ 



to ake money by trading in Kentucky 

 hunters. A few speculative European dealers 

 have from time to time tried it, but their 

 efforts have not been crowned with the antici- 

 pated reward, the reason being, that traveUing 

 expenses swallow up profits. Seven days and 

 nights of constant journeying must be gone 

 through before the animals are brought to the 

 Atlantic sea-board; and then there is the 

 crossing to encounter, with its cost and perils. 

 Altogether, it is scarcely a profitable venture, 

 and some who have embarked in it will, I 

 know, be quite ready to endorse my opinions 

 upon the subject. 



Stag-hunting used to be very prevalent in 

 distant parts of America. Strangers traversing 

 tracts of country north of the Ohio will be 

 told this by guides and fellow-travellers, and 

 will marvel that in such a district it could 

 ever have been a popular sport. Anything 

 more perilous it would be impossible to con- 

 ceive, the *^ going" being principally up and 

 down precipitous inclines, dotted at frequent 

 intervals with huge boulders, haK buried in 

 the reedy grass, over which the horses blunder 



