Frank Forester's Field sports of the United States, and British provinces, of North America (1849) (14565277170)

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Title: Frank Forester's Field sports of the United States, and British provinces, of North America

Year: 1849 (1840s)

Authors: Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858

Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds

Publisher: New York : Springer & Townsend

Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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strutting round their dead compa-nions, and had I not looked on shooting again as murder with-out necessity, I might have secured at least another. So Ishowed myself, and marching up to the place where the deadbirds were, drove away the survivors. Had the kindly-disposed clucking female been absent, an im-plement made, I believe, from the pinion-bone of the bird itself,affords an imitation so perfect of the cry of the Turkey, that notthe unsuspicious birds alone are lured within reach of men far lessscrupulous than the worthy naturalist—men who would neverpause to consider whether the game could be used or not, butwho would go on killing, like the Tiger or the Grizzly Bear, forthe mere love of killing, without either skill or excitement—butthat these gallant imitative gobblers deceive one another, andIme up to their log some rival hunter, who, hearing the well-simulated cry responsive to his own, and seeing the bushesshake, speeda his unerring bullet to the mark, and pays the mu-

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THE WILD TURKEY. TURKEY SHOOTING. 299 sician for his amatory notes, by what the Turkeys, coulJ theyreason, would doubtless consider a well-merited and expiatorydeath. The fairness of these gentry in the way of sporting, may beestimated by the following observation, quoted, like the above,from Mr. Audubon :— During winter, many of our rettHiuntersshoot them by moonlight, on the roosts, where these birds willfrequently stand a repetition of the reports of a rifle, althoughthey would fly from the attack of an owl, or even, perhaps, fromhis presence. The italics of the word real are Mr. Audubons,not mine, and I scarcely know what he means to imply by theterm, unless that the fellows whom he so denominates, shootfor the worth of the game, not for the sport, and are, in fact,what I should call real poachers, and utterly unworthy of thename of hunter, much less sportsman, with both which names,thank heaven ! some prestige of fair play and sense of honor isstill connected ; were it not so,

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