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Instances of the real fascination exercised by unusual 

 objects on animals of all kinds, from deer to birds, 

 fish, and insects, are extremely common. Carrying 

 lamps for night shooting is about to be prohibited 

 in some States of the Union, so destructive is it to 

 the deer, which will approach the light though they 

 have been constantly shot for the greater part of 

 a century by this device. " Lark glitters " seem 

 as irresistible as ever to the migrating flocks pass- 

 ing across France from the North in winter. The 

 Northern larks, which have never seen anything more 

 glittering than a Scandinavian waterfall, hover en- 

 chanted over the revolving spindle set with brilliant 

 looking-glass, while the Continental sportsman pours 

 in shot as fast as he can load at the arrested flocks. 



