AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. 
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St was meet they should give him a verdant tomb, 
Where the flowers, unplucked, might throng, 
And the bright-winged birds, unmolested might come, 
With their sweetest, softest song. 
They made his grave by the old church towers,* 
Away from the haunts of care; 
There, breathes the odour of Summer flowers, 
And the music of birds is there. C. W. T. 
GAME LAWS OF NEW-YORK. 
OF THE PRESERVATION OF DEER AND CERTAIN GAME 
AND ANIMALS. 
1. No person shall kill any wild buck, doe, or fawn, 
at any time during the months of January, February, 
March, April, May, June, or July. 
2. Every person who shall expose to sale any green 
deer skin, or fresh venison, or who shall have the same 
in his custody, at any time during the months aforesaid, 
shall be deemed to have violated the first section of this 
title, unless he prove that the buck, doe, or fawn, of which 
such green skin or venison was a part, was killed by some 
other person. 
3. Whenever any complaint shall be made to a justice 
of the peace, that a violation of the first section of this 
title has been committed, and that any green deer skin, or 
deer’s flesh, is concealed, he shall inquire into the matter, 
and if satisfied by competent testimony, that there is rea- 
sonable cause of suspicion to justify such complaint, he shall 
issue his warrant to any constable of the town, authorizing 
a search, in the day time, of any house, store, out-house, 
or other place, where such skin or flesh is suspected to be 
concealed, and search shall be made accordingly. 
4. Whoever shall violate the first section of this title, 
or shall conceal any green deer skin, or fresh venison, 
shall forfeit $12 50. 
5. No person shall at any time hunt, pursue, or destroy 
any wild buck, doe, or fawn, with any bloodhound or 
beagle; and whoever shall offend herein, shall forfeit 
$12 50. 
6. No person shall set any trap, or any spear made of 
iron, or other metal, or any sharp stick, either in or out of 
a pit, for the purpose of catching Deer, nor shall any per- 
son watch in the night time for the purpose of shooting 
Deer, within thirty rods of any highway. Whoever offends 
against either of these provisions, shall forfeit twenty-five 
dollars. 
* Swedes’ Church, Philadelphia. 
7. No person shall kill any Heath Hens, within the 
county of Queens, between the first day of January, and the 
first Wednesday in October; nor in the county of Suffolk, 
between the first day of January and the second Wednes- 
day in September; nor shall any person kill any Quail, or 
Partridges, in the counties of Queens, Kings, Suffolk, and 
New-York, between the fifth day of January and the 
twenty -fifth day of September; nor in the county of Al- 
bany, between the first day of March and first day of Octo- 
ber; nor shall any person kill any Woodcock, in any of 
the counties above named, between the first day of Fe- 
bruary and the first day of July; nor shall any person kill 
any Pheasants in the county of Albany, between the first 
day of March and the first day of October. 
8. Whoever shall offend against the provisions of the 
last section, by killing any Heath Hen, shall forfeit twenty- 
five dollars; by killing any Partridge, one dollar; and by 
killing any Quail, Woodcock, or Pheasant, fifty cents. 
9. Any person who shall expose to sale any Heath Hen, 
Woodcock, Quail, Partridge, or Pheasant, in either of the 
said counties respectively, or shall have any of the 
said game in his possession in either of the said counties, 
during the time when the killing of such game is forbidden 
by law, shall be deemed guilty of killing the same game, 
within the time prohibited. 
10. No person shall kill any Muskrat at any other place 
than along the line of some canal or artificial dam, or 
embankment, between the first day of May and the 
first day of November, in any year; whoever offends 
against this provision, shall forfeit one dollar for every 
Muskrat killed. 
11. The penalties prescribed in this title, shall be sued 
for, and recovered by and in the name of the overseers of 
the poor of the town where the offence was committed, 
in an action within three months after the commission of 
the offence, and shall be applied for the use of the poor. — 
Revised Statutes of New-York, Vol. I. page 701. 
From the American Turf Register. 
THE EAGLE AND THE WILD CAT. 
Prairie des Chiens, October 4, 1831. 
A few days since I received a letter from Dr. R. M. 
Coleman, of the army, who is stationed at' Fort Armstrong, 
two hundred miles below this, from which the following is 
an extract, viz. 
“ A few days since I went out with my dog and gun, 
with the intention of hunting pheasants. When I had got 
