Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOES FOR SHiPTER YIIL ^ ^Igepe the turtles alight, and there Feeds ?with hep fawn tb)e ting id doe ;T^here wtjen tlje -winter woods are bareWalks the wolf or) the crackling gnow. Brvant. Tl-)e ngildest manijeped njanThat ever scuttled sl]ip op cut a thpoat. Byron. -^t orjce tbjepe poge so vidld a yell,W^ithir) tb|at dark ar)d naprow dell,i5Ls all ttje fierjds from heaven tl;)at fellJ>iad pealed tlje banrjep cpy of Ijell ! Scott. 110
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOES FOR SHiPTER YIIL ^ ^Igepe the turtles alight, and there Feeds ?with hep fawn tb)e ting id doe ;T^here wtjen tlje -winter woods are bareWalks the wolf or) the crackling gnow. Brvant. Tl-)e ngildest manijeped njanThat ever scuttled sl]ip op cut a thpoat. Byron. -^t orjce tbjepe poge so vidld a yell,W^ithir) tb|at dark ar)d naprow dell,i5Ls all ttje fierjds from heaven tl;)at fellJ>iad pealed tlje banrjep cpy of Ijell ! Scott. 110. CHAPTER YIII S was remarked in the preced-ing chapter, game has neverbeen abundant in my forestsince my earliest acquaint-ance therewith. At differenttimes, however, we have al-most daily for weeks to-gether been favored with avisit from a solitary maledeer, which grew quite tameand friendly after he seemedto have become convinced,from the treatment he wasaccorded, that our farmerswished him well. Efforts tokill or capture such visitantshave seldom been made bythe boys at the farm, thisbeing, as has been well understood, in consonance withmy wish. One season a fine doe accompanied by her fawn acquiredthe habit of leaping the hedge which divided the meadowfrom the forest, and cropping the tender grass and younggrain in the field. All of these gentle animals subse-quently fell victims to some of the numerous hunters who,in those years, infested these parts. No taint of the hunters instinct can, I think, be tracedin my composition. A far more pleasing sight to me isthe gentle doe with he
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