THE ROMANCE OF SPORTING, 
CHAPTER I. 
BIRD, BEAST AND HUNTER. 
Tue air is filled with birds that fly, and are pursued by 
bird and beast. The earth, with beasts that run, and are 
pursued by beast and bird; while man, in a world of pursuers 
and pursued, is chief hunter of them all! 
Whatever may have been the case in primeval times, it 
certainly seems very natural now that our relations to the living 
creatures by which we are surrounded should be mainly those 
of hunter and the hunted; and that these relations should be 
most immediate to bird and beast seems equally of course, 
since they more nearly appro us on the ascending scale 
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