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THE BLACK COCK. 



Tetrao Tetrix. Linn. 



According as the climate of a country differs from 

 another, as its surface is varied by dense forests, bare 

 plains, or is hemmed in by mountain ranges, so also 

 will differ the various in and out-door arrangements of 

 its inhabitants. Their amusements, too, are equally 

 influenced by natural phenomena, and not only as 

 regards the mode, but also the season, of their enjoy- 

 ment. This influence extends itself, as a matter of 

 course, to the pursuit of game; and again, as a species 

 may be thinly scattered over, or abundant in, a country, 

 so also will there be a difference in the time and the 

 manner of its pursuit. A game-law, whose non-ob- 

 servance in the north w^ould merit severe punishment, 

 might be disregarded in a southern clime, not only 

 without damage, but even advantageously. To shoot 

 a fox is in England looked upon as an atrocity ; but 

 to do so in a country where they are not and cannot he 

 hunted as with us, and where, moreover, they are so 



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