. Prairie and forest: a description of the game of North America, with personal adventures in their pursuit. Hunting; Game and game-birds. 216 JPSAIIilH AND FOREST. deep half the year, and the spring flits into summer, and the summer into winter, as rapidly as the changing scenes of a drama, he would possibly have described the happy hunting-ground similar to the great lone land, the home of the ptarmigan. What eye hath not seen, the mind seldom can conceive; and I have no doubt the aborigines of these fai'-off, desolate regions, with their cutting north winds and interminable winter nights, i
. Prairie and forest: a description of the game of North America, with personal adventures in their pursuit. Hunting; Game and game-birds. 216 JPSAIIilH AND FOREST. deep half the year, and the spring flits into summer, and the summer into winter, as rapidly as the changing scenes of a drama, he would possibly have described the happy hunting-ground similar to the great lone land, the home of the ptarmigan. What eye hath not seen, the mind seldom can conceive; and I have no doubt the aborigines of these fai'-off, desolate regions, with their cutting north winds and interminable winter nights, if asked to picture what they deemed a perfect paradise, would describe their own land; thus contentment springs out of PTARMIGAN. But to the country Mr. M'Donald describes as back of the north wind, lonely as it is—for it is but sparsely pop- ulated — if visited at the proper season, is not without its beauties; for arid mountain, verdant swamp, and rocky crag mingle together, intersected by innumerable dancing brooks or grand pellucid rivers, forming a landscape ever grand and impressive. Here the ptarmigan is to be found in abundance, even without the aid of a dog; but should the sportsman be ac-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gillmore, Parker. New York, Harper & Bros.
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