SPORTSMEN, FARMTES, Sec. lOT 



of. the stick. When the water-fowl takes 

 the baited hook, he pulls the stiek and 

 brick-bat down, and the brick-bat pulls him 

 Hnder water and drowns him. 



I will now, for the benefit of sportsmen j^roIchtheRed 

 in the Highlands of Scotland, instruct them Sfgiiandsof 



. Scotland, with- 



how to approach the red deer within thirty in so or 40 



-* ^ ^ yards. 



yards. The red deer are so very wild and 

 shy, that, I am told, it is m.ost difficult to 

 get within shot of them. This difficulty I 

 will completely do away. My plan is no- 

 thing, more or less, than what, in both 

 North and South Carolina, is so well known, 

 and called fire-hunting ry night. I feel by m^sS!^'''° 

 a very considerable degree of pleasure in 

 reflecting, that I shall be the means of pro- 

 curing much diversion and satisfaction to * 

 Highland sportsmen, by teaching them, 

 whenever they choose it, how to approach, 

 v/ithin a short distance, the wildest and 

 shyest red deer. I v/ill describe the Avhole 

 particulars. I was an eye-witness to this 

 amusement, when I first went about thirtv 

 nriiles up the country, just after the siege of 

 Charlestown, with my old, intimate, and 



