PREFACE. VU 



Servants were constantly employed loading his guns and filling 

 hampers with the slain ; but, long ere the sun had set, liis object 

 was accomplished and his bet won. Five hundred birds at this 

 season, be it remembered, may be reckoned equivalent to twice 

 or thrice as many, according to the species killed, and to the 

 number of young they would respectively have produced. 



Such is iin instance of what, on a smaller scale, is being 

 commonly enacted. 



