248 PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 
As sharks are numerous all along the Atlantic sea-board of 
the United States, particularly from New Jersey southward, 
any stray bird that should drop a long way out had better 
be lost, for your dog would run a great risk of being seized 
by these marine savages if he went out into the deep water. 
I can imagine novices and old men attached to this de- 
scription of shooting; but for the keen sportsman who 
values his bag in proportion to the amount of labor and 
skill which has been called in practice to obtain it, such 
wholesale slaughter of confiding flocks of birds must be far 
too tame work to meet his approval. 
LOSS 
