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like, are usually killed by the sportsman, if encountered in pur¬ 
suit of other game, though never made the object of especial 
chase. 
None of these, however, can it be deemed unsportsmanlike 
or snobbish to shoot, while in the field, with dogs, as it is to kill 
Pigeons, Meadow Larks, Thrushes, or the like, since their haunts 
and habits are generally in some sort like game-like, and dogs 
will, for the most part, draw on them, if not stand them dead. 
None of these, however, require any fuller notice than the 
above, and hence I proceed to shooting the Sora Pail on the 
Delaware. 
