The kings of England formerly had their forests "to hold the king's game," for sport or food, sometimes destroying villages to cre...ate or extend them; and I think that they were impelled by a true instinct. Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth,"Mour forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation,--not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true recreation? or shall we, like the villains, grub them all up, poaching on our own national domains?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire, Full well I served my master for more than seven year,... Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear: Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When shot, the deer seldom drops immediately, but runs sometimes for hours, the hunter in hot pursuit. This phase, known as 'deer ...running,' develops fleet runners, particularly in deer- jacking expeditions when the law is pursuing the hunters as swiftly as the hunters are pursuing the deer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »