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unhurt, and effect their ultimate escape, in this manner, 

 after lying for some seconds as if killed outright ; and the 

 stories of accidents incurred from wounded carnivora 

 through the like want of caution are innumerable. 



Turkey shooting, which alone remains, can, I must 

 maintain it, in spite of the prejudices of my western 

 friends, hardly ever be had under circumstances which 

 constitute it a sport ; for the bird will rarely either lie to 

 setters, or flush to spaniels within shot ; and to lie under 

 shelter of a covering log, and call it up by imitating the 

 yelp of the hen bird, and then shoot it with a rifle, is, for 

 the reasons I have given above, though an effective way 

 of procuring an admirable species of game, no genuine 

 sport. 



I have heard of this bird being hunted with beagles 

 by sportsmen mounted on slow, active ponies, through the 

 fine open forests of Canada East, where the ground is un- 

 encumbered with brushwood and coppice, and where the 

 giant trees stand so wide apart that one might manoeuvre 

 a regiment of cavalry among them ; and by this means, it 

 is said, they are forced to take wing, and afford fair flying 

 shots to their pursuers, or are driven to tree after a short 

 and exciting gallop, when they can either be shot sitting 

 on the branches, or driven out to the gun, accordingly as 

 the sportsman inclines to fill his bag at all hazards, or to 

 give the game a chance for its life. 



In my belief, it is not in sportsmanship, as it is said to 

 be in love and war, where all that wins is reputed fair. 

 It is not in the mere killing of numbers, much less in the 

 mere killing at all ; it is not in the value of the things 



