BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS. /5 



nor is such at all necessary, nor does it in any way 

 promote the enjoyment of sport, or add to the effici- 

 ency or character for superiority of a hunting estab- 

 lishment, or indeed of any other. Where it takes 

 place in any unusual degree, it almost universally 

 arises from bad management ; and the permitting it 

 shews the master, or manager, anything but a good 

 sportsman, a good judge of sporting appliances and 

 their management, and, I should say, very little 

 of an estimable man. 



I have heard many shooters affirm that their 

 pursuit was carried on without producing suffering to 

 anything ; and many a lady who would turn away 

 in horror from seeing a fowl's neck broken by her 

 cook, would with great glee commend the shot who 

 brought down the pheasant or partridge. Now 

 which of the two is the pleasanter, to have one's neck 

 broken, or to be riddled with shot, we will not 

 attempt to decide here ; but I have a word or two 

 beyond the actual death to discuss. I allow that a 

 first-rate shot may seldom miss, and v/hen he kills 

 he " kills dead ;" but all shooters are not such 

 shots, and in that case what becomes of the unfor- 



