DEER-STALKING. 



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you exercise your art? I spread my nets, and set 

 them in a fit place, and instruct my hounds to pursue 

 the wild deer till they come to the nets unexpectedly, 

 and so are entangled, and I slay them in the nets. 

 Cannot you hunt without nets ? Yes ; with swift 

 hounds I follow the wild deer. What wild deer do 

 you chiefly take? Harts, boars, and rein deer, and 

 goats, and sometimes hares." 



The slow but certain march of civilization, not- 

 withstanding every effort to the contrary, gradually 



