SPORTSMEN, FARMERS, &C. lit 



laid his arm over the handle of the frying- 

 pan, supported his musket with his left 

 hand, fired, and shot the deer. The deer 

 was standing rather sideways to him, with 

 his head turned round to the light; so that 

 he shot him in the fore-quarters, just behind 

 the fore-elbow. The animal did not run 

 five yards. We threw him over his horse, 

 and returned home. 



There was, when I was in the Carolinas, 

 a positive act of the assembly, imposing a 

 fine on any person who should fire-hunt by 

 night ; for some persons, not approaching 

 near enough to distinguish plainly that it 

 was a deer, and no other animal, have shot 

 young colts, oxen, and heifers ; for the eyes 

 of these young animals, at night, by this 

 light, will appear just the same as the eyes 

 of the deer : therefore you must be careful, 

 and see distinctly what animal it is, or you 

 may shoot young cattle. 



As no pine barren knots are to be pro- 

 cured in this country, I will find you a sub- 

 stitute, and a much better thing, than the 

 frying-pan and wood fire ; for the wood 

 fire can only be used in a very still night, 



