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GAME-DEALERS 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



Poulterers' Shops — Supply of Game — Red Deer • — Deer killed 

 in the Fields — Eoe — Grouse and Black Game; calling; of — 

 Shooting Hares by night — Pheasants — Advantages attending 

 the sale of Game by the fair Sportsman and the Landed Pro- 

 prietor — American Game — Wild Fowl in Shops — Bird 

 Dealers in Leadenhall Market — Norway Game — Manner of 

 collecting — Hybrids — Introduction of new species of Game 

 into Britain — Prolific Birds — Sea-fowl ; their breeding places 

 — Solan Geese — ■ Migration of Fish. 



In these railroad-days, when carriage is so cheap 

 and expeditious, the poulterers' and garaedealers' 

 shops in most of the large towns of England and 

 Scotland are supplied with game of every descrip- 

 tion in quantities that are quite astonishing. Red 

 deer and roebucks are to be bought everywhere, 

 and, I am sorry to say, at nearly all seasons. 

 Having easy communication and constant dealings 

 and interchanges with each other, the poulterers 

 are able to supply to their customers almost any 

 kind of game which may be asked for. 



