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not a living creature on the green earth and under the sun, 
and therefore it has been that only such heathful and hardy 
treatment as our naturalists have given to Natural. History, 
has frund favor among us. Our glorious Audubon, who is 
just now dead, lived and wrote like one of the people, and 
therefore we love and venerate him passed away: The people 
everywhere will have the familiar objects and subjects of 
their every-day life treated in a familiar way, and all the 
stilted terminology of an over-done wisdom is, and must con- 
tinue to be, gibberish to them. One such fanciful and eloquent 
romancer as Buffon, will continue through all time more dear to 
the popular heart in the Old World, than fifty rude stolid com- 
pilers as Gesner or Pennant, or even than the venerated 
Linnzus himself; and Goldsmith, too, has made “A Fairy 
Tale” (as Sam Johnson called it,) of Natural History, that 
must live as a substantial reality in the memories of mankind 
more enduring than the heavy monuments of learning. 
It is therefore entirely from the stand-point of the Hunter 
Naturalist,—the indigenous growth of our New World,—that I 
propose to regard the Romance of Sporting, and the relations 
of Bird, Beast and Hunter. 
