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following on horses. The Jacks, as they are called, are exceedingly swift runners, but are often overtaken by the hounds.

Squirrels. Of all game animals no one furnishes more sport to the young hunter than does the black or gray squirrel. For squirrel-hunting a dog is useful to point out the tree where the game is in hiding; and for this purpose almost any dog with a good nose will do. The proper weapon is a small bore-rifle, though the shotgun is often used; but the rifle calls for the most skill and gives better satisfaction in every way. Other animals hunted in the United States are the Raccoon, the Wolf, the Lynx, the Couguar, and the Opossum, and sometimes the Alligator and the Eagle. These, all of which are described in C. C. T., are usually shot with the rifle.

dents of the State are not allowed to hunt in certain counties without becoming members of one of the Game Protective Societies. Robbing the nests of wild birds or killing song-birds is unlawful in all the States mentioned.

Trespassing. In most cases it is necessary for the sportsman to hunt on land belonging to other people. The best plan is to obtain permission, which in this country is usually given readily, but often huntsmen have become so accustomed to kill game in a certain spot without hindrance, that they think they have a right to do so. Courts, however, have decided that, no matter what the custom is, sportsmen cannot claim a legal right to hunt on other people's land, nor even to stand on the public road and shoot over the fence, or send in a dog. In any Game Laws. Most States have such case the sportsman is really passed statutes for the preservation trespassing, and although the owner of game. of the land usually does not care, Methods. In New York deer the sportsman should always recannot be taken by traps, spring-member that the owner has a right guns, or similar devices. They to order him to leave. If he refuse, must not be hunted with dogs in St. Lawrence and Delaware counties, and in other counties only in certain prescribed seasons. It is forbidden to kill fawns. In New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, wild fowl must not be killed with swivel or punt-guns, or by any other device except such a gun as is ordinarily raised to the shoulder and fired.

and do not leave after a reasonable time, the owner may then use necessary force, but not till then. The owner has no right, for instance, to set a savage dog on the trespasser whom he finds on his land. In some States special laws have been made against sportsmen who enter land when they are forbidden by a printed and posted notice.

same way that he owns his horses, dogs, or chickens, but he has the exclusive right to kill it so long as it is on his land. This right is called his property in game. But game is the property of no particular person till he has killed it. The question as to who owns game killed by a trespasser has never been settled in the United States.

In New York it is unlawful to hunt The owner of a piece of land does wild fowl at night or with a float-not own the live game on it, in the ing battery" or to use a decoy more than twenty rods from shore, except in certain bays in Long Island, in Lake Ontario, and in Hudson River below Albany. In New York it is unlawful also to shoot wild fowl from any steam or sailing vessel. Game birds in general may not be trapped in any of these States. In New York hares and rabbits may not be hunted with ferrets, except in orchards or nurseries by their owners. In New Jersey non-resi

Some States allow hunting privileges to its own citizens which they deny to those of other States.

Their right to do this has been kings of Persia owned many vast denied by some people, but the hunting parks, in which were kept Supreme Court of the United wild animals. These parks were States has decided that it is allowable to make such laws with regard to oyster-fishing, and probably all similar laws would be supported in like manner.

Seasons. Most of the States have laws regulating the times when the several species of game may be killed. See Tables following, The black lines show months the game is "in season." A short black line in the columns means first half of month, when printed toward the left; and last half, wher. toward right. Figures to the left of short lines mean in season from that date, and to right, to that date. These times are only approximately correct, as legislatures are constantly changing them. The sportsman to be absolutely safe should therefore make special inquiry in each case. The intent of these laws is to protect the game during its breeding season, so that birds may not be killed while nesting and rearing their young nor before the young birds shall have grown large and strong enough to care for themselves. The time when game may lawfully be killed is called the "open season," and during that period the game is said to be "in season." The period when it cannot be killed is called the "close season," and the game is then said to be "out of season." In most States it is forbidden also to have in possession or to sell game in the close season.

called by the Greeks paradeisos, from which we get our word Paradise. The Greek and Roman legends are full of hunting stories. The Greeks were fond of the sport, and Xenophon and other Greek authors wrote books about it, from which it appears that hares, boars, stags, lions, panthers, and bears were among the game hunted.

In Egypt the huntsmen formed a class by themselves, either hunting on their own account, or acting as the attendants of the nobility. Sometimes trained lions were employed by them instead of dogs, just as the cheetah, or hunting leopard, is used in India at the present day, and the huntsman sometimes rode in a chariot, discharging arrows at the game when he came within range. Allusions in the Bible to huntsmen and their nets and snares show that in Palestine trapping was a favorite mode of securing game; but spears and arrows were also sportsmen's weapons. The horse and dog were not used in hunting by the Jews. King Herod was a successful huntsman, and is said to have killed forty boars, wild asses, and deer in a single day. The Romans viewed hunting, like other sports, less as an occupation for gentlemen than as a spectacle, and exhibitions of hunting were often given in the great amphitheatres. Sometimes the beasts were killed by History. The pursuit of wild birds attendants, and sometimes the peoand animals was probably under-ple were allowed to rush in and taken at first to obtain food, or for protection; but it must have begun very early to be thought of as a sport, for the oldest nations whose history we knew so considered it. In the great eastern kingdoms the Kings and their courtiers were very fond of the sport, and the sculptures on the ruins of Nineveh and other great cities of Assyria and Persia often represent hunting scenes. The

carry away what they could get, in which case no dangerous animals were brought in. Sometimes large trees were taken up and planted in the arena, to make it look like a forest. In one of these hunting spectacles, which were called Venationes, there were 1000 ostriches, 1000 stags, 1000 boars, 1000 deer, and numbers of wild goats, wild sheep, and other smaller animals

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