. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . of the elegant, graceful, and gorgeous peacock, as hestruts majestically about over the greensward, will have perhaps a far more ex- THE WOODCOCK. 231 Few, we think, can expect to derive much real pleasure or benp-fit from the exposure consequent upon a cock-shooting expedition,exposed as they are, for hours together, not only to the burningrays of a July sun, but also to the inhalation of the poisonousgases that are always engendered in these miasmatic situation
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . of the elegant, graceful, and gorgeous peacock, as hestruts majestically about over the greensward, will have perhaps a far more ex- THE WOODCOCK. 231 Few, we think, can expect to derive much real pleasure or benp-fit from the exposure consequent upon a cock-shooting expedition,exposed as they are, for hours together, not only to the burningrays of a July sun, but also to the inhalation of the poisonousgases that are always engendered in these miasmatic situationsduring the summer months. These two circumstances alone,independent of any other reasons, ought to be sufficient to pre-vent any sensible sportsman from entering into the amusement atthis season of the year. However, the temptation to go afterwoodcock at this time, we must acknowledge, is often very strong;and we are not surprised that but few can resist it, particularlywhen the law encourages it, and almost every one hears his sport-ing friends around him boasting of their great success and wonder-ful deeds the day DISAPPEARANCE OF WOODCOCKS. During the period of moulting—the latter part of August andthe month of September—woodcocks disappear, or are said to dis-appear, for a short time, from their usual haunts, and retire either tended, a far more beneficial influence over the community than the city fathers atfirst supposed or intended. May we not confidently hope that their presence in these places will engenderin the bosoms of our youth a better appreciation and a more becoming respect forthese lowly but still very interesting objects of creation ? will foster and cultivatethe kindlier feelings of the heart? will give rise to and encourage a love for thebeautiful and a taste for the study of natural history, and perhaps do more thanany other plan could towards crushing, as it were, in the very germ, that disposi-:ion to kill and destroy which unfortunately
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