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unhurt, and effect their ultimate escape, in this manner, 
after lying for some seconds as if killed outright; and the 
stories of accidents incurred from wounded carnivora 
through the like want of caution are innumerable. 
Turkey shooting, which alone remains, can, I must 
maintain it, in spite of the prejudices of my western 
friends, hardly ever be had under circumstances which 
constitute it a sport; for the bird will rarely either lie to 
setters, or flush to spaniels within shot; and to lie under 
shelter of a covering log, and call it up by imitating the 
yelp of the hen bird, and then shoot it with a rifle, is, for 
the reasons I have given above, though an effective way 
of procuring an admirable species of game, no genuine 
sport. 
I have heard of this bird being hunted with beagles 
by sportsmen mounted on slow, active ponies, through the 
fine open forests of Canada Hast, where the ground is un- 
encumbered with brushwood and coppice, and where the 
giant trees stand so wide apart that one might manoeuvre 
a regiment of cavalry among them; and by this means, it 
is said, they are forced to take wing, and afford fair flying 
shots to their pursuers, or are driven to tree after a short 
and exciting gallop, when they can either be shot sitting 
on the branches, or driven out to the gun, accordingly as 
the sportsman inclines to fill his bag at all hazards, or to 
give the game a chance for its life. 
In my belief, it is not in sportsmanship, as it is said to 
be in love and war, where all that wins is reputed fair. 
It is not in the mere killing of numbers, much Jess in the 
mere killing at all; it is not in the value of the things 
