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indifferent shot will soon tire of burrell- 

 shooting ; a person who from physical 

 inability cannot undergo the necessary 

 amount of fatigue without greatly over- 

 tassking his powers of endurance, will be 

 content with killing one or two ; but to a 

 determined sportsman, who is both a good 

 shot and a good walker, there is no 

 sport in these hills that can be compared 

 with it. 



Seen generally from a great distance upon 

 open hills, where it requii'es no mean degree 

 of sportsmanship to approach them, even 

 the stalking is attended with much more 

 excitement than with most animals, and 

 after a successful day, there is a feeling of 

 having really accomplished something of a 

 feat in shooting. True, it is the most 

 difficult, and attended with more fatigue 

 than any other kind of shooting, but inde- 

 pendently of the gratijfication of killing a 

 shy and wary animal like the burrell, to the 

 lover of nature — and what real sportsman 

 is not ? — -there is a charm in the very 



