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of " rich rouge brown" of the naturalist, is carefully 

 fostered and "preserved." 



That there is a difficulty in associating these 

 relations as indeed the case is with relatives gene- 

 rally we are assured by many trustworthy authorities. 

 Mr. Colquhoun observes "that many gentlemen are 

 now beginning to shoot the hens, observing the great 

 increase of black game, and decrease of grouse in 

 some districts. This," according to Mr. C. (as the 

 dreadful old women say, who mutilate proper names 

 under the most aggravated circumstances), " may be 

 in part attributed to the advance of cultivation," he is 

 speaking of Scotland; "but I cannot help thinking 

 the black game have a good share in driving off the 

 grouse, as I know of one instance where the latter 

 were killed off, and the former again returned to their 

 old haunts." In like manner, not to write it pro- 

 fanely, if the family of Yankee Doodle was " killed 

 off," there is little doubt that the red gentlemen 

 would return to their old haunts, and the Ojibbeway 

 be great in the Broadway. 



The young sportsman our especial concern is 

 about to engage against black game (not the nigger of 

 the vulgar tongue, but the tetrao of ornithology), and 

 is, consequently, fain to learn how the campaign 

 should be entered upon : let him attend. Our son, 

 make thyself acquainted with the haunts of the 

 quarry. Having discovered these, rely upon it they 

 will be found hard by some clump of rushes on the 

 fair free moor. When you get a point near cover of 



