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The night was dark ; but however allowed 

 him fufficient light to take aim at fo large a 

 body. He fired with effed ; and had the 

 pleafure to fee his enemy fall. But, on run- 

 ning to him, he was ftruck with finding he 

 had killed one of the beft horfes of his own 

 team. 



The fheep does not frequent the forefl in 

 any abundance. Here and there you find a 

 little flock on a dry gravelly hill: but in 

 general, the foreft abounds with fwamps, and 

 marfhy bottoms, highly pernicious to the 

 fheep — the only animal perhaps, except one, 

 which purfues with the greateft avidity, what 

 is moft deftrudlive to it. It is the lefs how- 

 ever to be lamented, that the lawns of the 

 foreft are not decorated with thefe animals, 

 as they are certainly lefs adapted to a foreft- 

 fcene, than deer ; tho in themfelves perhaps, 

 more pidlurefque. The foreft is wild, and 

 they are domeftic. 



With hares and rabbits the foreft abounds. 

 The latter are the under- keeper's perquifite } 



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