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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
the other requires only the patience of Job, added to enough 
skill with the gun to knock over a great beast, as big as a Jack- 
ass, and as timid as a Sheep, with a heavy charge of buck-shot. 
The former mode is practiced, almost exclusively in Penn 
sylvania, where the hunters are very apt to shoot hounds on 
account of their disturbing the forests, and driving the Deer off 
the ranges, as also in the southern tiers of counties in New- 
York; on Long Island, and to the eastward, as also with some 
small variation of mode, in Hamilton county, and the northern 
section of the State. 
On Long Island, especially, at Snedecor’s and Carman’s, 
where excellent hotels are kept for the accommodation of city 
sportsmen, it is usual to collect large parties, often numbering 
twenty or thirty guns. All the Deer-paths and run-ways are 
perfectly well known to the hunters and drivers, and the com¬ 
parative excellence of them thoroughly ascertained. The stations 
at these are, therefore, meted out by lot to the sportsmen, some 
of whom have thus a fair chance of getting a shot in the course 
of a whole day’s weary watch to leeward of Deer-path, while 
against others the odds are, perhaps, a hundred to one against 
their so much as hearing the distant bay of a hound. 
Meantime the hounds are uncoupled, the drivers enter the 
woods, and endeavor to force the quarry to the known passes, 
at which the gallant cits, wait patiently, or impatiently, as it may 
be, with little or no excitement; beyond the knowledge, that 
if they are detected indulging in a cigar, or in firing an unwise 
shot at any passing small game, much more in being absent from 
their stand when a Deer—if any—crosses it, or missing him if 
present under arms, they will be fined a dozen of Champagne 
at dinner, for the benefit of the company; whereas, if they suc¬ 
ceed in killing Hart or Hind, they will be rewarded by the hide 
and horns, and by the permission to buy the venison at auction 
in the evening, if they bid more for it than their unsuccessful 
neighbors. 
I was once present at one of these Epping hunts of America’s 
cockneys, and I most assuredly shall never be present at ano 
