. The big game of North America. Its habits, habitats, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it .. . Reaching the BroadRock, I reined up and paused a few moments, regarding thesj)ot. I love to recall my father as he sat old xllice atthat spot—a splendid type of physical manhood, six feetand an inch, broad-chested, square-shouldered, erect, weigh-ing about one hundred and eighty pounds; in the splen-did skill of his horsemanship, the peer of Turner Ashby; inthe dignity of his bearing, of the Old Virginia type, of FOX-HUNTING IN YIUGINIA. 547 wliioli Gen. Robert E. Lee was th
. The big game of North America. Its habits, habitats, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it .. . Reaching the BroadRock, I reined up and paused a few moments, regarding thesj)ot. I love to recall my father as he sat old xllice atthat spot—a splendid type of physical manhood, six feetand an inch, broad-chested, square-shouldered, erect, weigh-ing about one hundred and eighty pounds; in the splen-did skill of his horsemanship, the peer of Turner Ashby; inthe dignity of his bearing, of the Old Virginia type, of FOX-HUNTING IN YIUGINIA. 547 wliioli Gen. Robert E. Lee was the modern exemplar. Myeye followed my thoughts to the distant hill, where, tow-ering vast against the clear, blue sky, survivor of ten gen-erations of my ancestors buried at its feet, a gnarled andmighty oak points from the place of my fathers honoredashes to the rest of his noble soul. I rode slowly on. Tears, idle tears; I know uot what they from the depths of Some divine despair,Rose in the heart and gathered to the looking on the happy autumn fieldsAnd thinking of the days that are no ALLIGATOR-SHOOTING IN FLORIDA. By Cyrus W. Butler. J^ROM the day that Mother Eve was accused of theml questionable taste of being tempted by a serpent,we have had for that order of Reptllia so littleinterest, aside from fear and aversion, that thisdislike has not stopped with snakes, but has extended, in amodified degree, to the entire reptilian class. It is butnatural, therefore, that of all classes of animal life, that ofReptllia should afford the least attraction to the sports-man; for, in addition to this aversion, you can neither shootthem on the wing nor angle for them with a split bamboo;and, as a rule, its species are small, their capture void ofpleasure, and they are wortliless when caught. But, thanks to the molecule whose differentiation firststarted in its development the order Crocodilia, we have inthe United States two species, the Crocodile and Alligat
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