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_ operandi, and the object of the hunter is to get a killing 
shot, not to ride across the open to a long and slashing 
run, and to be in at the death, when the quarry is pulled 
down by the pack at the end of a gallant chase. Bears 
are also hunted in the same style with packs of blood- 
hounds in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, but there 
the rifle does the execution, and the slaughter of the game 
by that instrument, not the rapture of the pursuit, is the 
end and aim of the pursuer. 
The only sport which bears any considerable analogy 
to hunting, as it is practised in Great Britain, is the 
coursing of the stag or elk with greyhounds, as it is, 
within the last few years, beginning to be considerably 
practised in some of the western prairie States; for in 
that, as in the English chase, the pursuit of animal by 
animal, the hunters and the hunted both, for the most 
part in full view, and the keeping them in sight by the 
speed of horses and by skill and daring in equestrianism, 
are the sources of enjoyment and the ultimatum to be 
obtained. 
Still, this phase of the sport being yet, as it were, in 
its infancy, few hounds of the peculiar race requisite being 
thus far introduced, and the pursuit itself rather excep- 
tional than of common practice, it must be admitted that 
hunting, in the European, and more particularly British 
sense of the word, is not an American field sport. The 
pursuit of the larger animals of game, where they exist, 
as the deer, the bear, the elk, the moose, the cariboo, and 
perhaps I may add, the turkey; although it is usually 
known in common parlance as hunting, is not properly 
