248 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



As sharks are numerous all along the Atlantic sea-board of 

 the United States, particularly from New Jersey southward, 

 any stray bird that should drop a long way out had better 

 be lost, for your dog would run a great risk of being seized 

 by these marine savages if he went out into the deep water. 

 I can imagine novices and old men attached to this de- 

 scription of shooting ; but for the keen sportsman who 

 values his bag in proportion to the amount of labor and 

 skill which has been called in practice to obtain it, such 

 wholesale slaughter of confiding flocks of birds must be far 

 too tame work to meet his approval. 





