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considered it cruel or uncharitable to torment a second 
witch; and it is probable, long before this, that--— : 
cruelty, old age, and want, have worn her out, and 
that both poor Mary and her cat have ceased to be. 
Would you wish to pursue the different species of 
game, well stored and boundless is your range in 
Demerara. Here no one dogs you, and afterwards 
clandestinely inquires if you have a hundred a year 
in land to entitle you to enjoy such patrician sport. 
Here no saucy intruder asks if you have taken out a 
license, by virtue of which you are allowed to kill the 
birds which have bred upon your own property. 
Here 
“ You are as free as when God first made man, 
Ere the vile laws of servitude began, 
And wild in woods the noble savage ran.” 
Before the morning’s dawn you hear a noise in 
the forest, which sounds like u duraquaura” often 
repeated. This is the partridge, a little smaller, and The Par- 
differing somewhat in colour from the English 
partridge : it lives entirely in the forest, and pro¬ 
bably the young brood very soon leave their parents, 
as you never flush more than two birds in the same 
place, and in general only one. 
About the same hour, and sometimes even at Two spe- 
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midnight, you hear two species of Maam, or 1 ilia- Maam or 
mou, send forth their long and plaintive whistle from 
the depth of the forest. The flesh of both is delicious. 
The largest is plumper, and almost equals in size the 
black cock of Northumberland. The quail is said 
to be here, though rare. 
