File:Frank Forester's Field sports of the United States, and British provinces, of North America (1849) (14771824963).jpg

Identifier: frankforestersfi02herb (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
, andperhaps a few on the mountains toward the Delaware river, buttheir number is small, and daily decreasing. To the eastward,they are still tolerably plentiful in the northern parts of Ver-mont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire; and in Maine theyabound in the great evergreen forests, their worst enemy therebeing the Wolf, as there is, perhaps, less of the sporting ardorto be found in the hardy and laborious natives of that fine State,than in any other part of the Union. The loggers and lumber-men may occasionally filch time from graver occupation to still-hunt, or fire-hunt a Deer or two, and in their leisure time mayget up a hunt or two in parties, for a frolic or a bet-—a hunt inwhich, by the way, every thing that flies or runs, from an Owlto a Skunk, is brought to bag promiscuously, and counted asgame,—but hunting proper and scientific, I may say there isnone. What game comes into market is mostly brought by Indians,who watch patiently at the run-ways by the lake margins, and
Text Appearing After Image:
uo-^^-^ THE DEER. DEER HUNTING. 241 shoot the Deer as they come down to drink at dawn, and atnightfall. From Pennsylvania, and the western part of New-York, theyare found everywhere to the westward abundantly, althoughsuch cruel and promiscuous havoc is made among them at allseasons, without respect for age or sex, that it cannot be dis-tinctly said how soon they may cease to exist. Up to the winter of 1836, they were found in thousands, inwhat are known as the Beech-woods, on the confines of New-York and Pennsylvania; but in February of that year, hordesof savage rustic ruffians, profiting by the deep snows, and unex-ampled crust, went into the woods on snow-shoes, and literallyslaughtered the helpless Deer, by droves, with clubs and knives,for the worth o^ their skins, the flesh at that season being use-less. Since that time they have never gathered to any largehead. Such wanton brutality is inconceivable, and I cannot butbelieve that the hipeds capable of such butchery, would beequ

Note About Images