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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
on Sporting subjects, should republish my labors for their own 
advantage, as the selection of such articles implies preference, 
and is therefore in some sort a compliment. I do, however, 
most seriously protest, both in my own name, and in that of the 
Sporting brotherhood here , whether imported—like myself—or 
to the manor born, against being transmogrified into some 
strange fish which we never pretended to be, and against having 
our writings converted into silly balderdash, by glaring misap¬ 
plication of namds and places. What would not be the roar of 
laughter at home, should it be discovered that an American pe¬ 
riodical had quoted part of Mr. Scrope’s fine work on “ Deer 
Stalking,” ascribed to a “ Gentleman of Whitechapel,” and 
represented as having come off on Highgate Hill, or in Epping 
Forest ] Yet this is pretty much the way in which Mr. Carle- 
ton has dealt by me, and one or two others of my fellow-scrib¬ 
blers here. 
But, to return to our muttons ! The first thing to be done, in 
general, on a tramp after Moose or Cariboo, is to encamp for 
the first night, since it is rare that a single day’s march carries 
the sportsman to the scene of action ; and this process of en¬ 
campment is one of the most exciting and spirit-stirring things 
conceivable, being by no means untinctured with a sort of rude, 
half-poetical romance. 
The arms are stacked, or hung from the branches of the giant 
pines around the camp ; the goods are piled; the snow is 
scraped away from a large area, and heaped into banks to wind¬ 
ward ; a tree or two is felled, and a fire kindled, which might 
roast a Moose entire; beds are prepared of the soft and fra 
grant tips of cedar and hemlock branches ; and the party gathers 
about the cheerful blaze, keeping to windward of the mimic 
Vesuvius, while the collops are hissing in the frying-pan, the 
coffee is simmering in the camp kettle, and the fish or game_if 
the Indians have found time to catch a salmon-trout or two 
through the ice of some frozen lake, or the sportsmen have 
brought down a brace or two of Ruffed or Canada Grouse_is 
roasting on wooden spits before the fire, with the rich gravy 
