so many public

    play so many games as the more

    primitive but solitary amusements of ing, fishe like

    yet given place to t every New England

    boy among my contemporaries she

    ages of ten and fourteen; and ing and fishing grounds were

    not limited, like t were

    more boundless even t

    oftener stay to play on t already a change

    is taking place, o to an increased y, but to an

    increased scarcity of game, for perer is test

    friend of ted, not excepting ty.

    Moreover, imes to add fiso my

    fare for variety.  I ually fishe same kind of

    necessity t t fisever y I might

    conjure up against it itious, and concerned my

    phan my feelings.  I speak of fishing only now, for

    I  differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I

    to t t I am less  I did

    not perceive t my feelings  pity

    t.  As for fowling, during

    t years t I carried a gun my excuse  I was

    studying ornit only ne I

    confess t I am noo t there is a finer way of

    studying ornit requires so much closer

    attention to ts of t, if for t reason only,

    I o omit t notanding the

    objection on ty, I am compelled to doubt if

    equally valuable sports are ever substituted for these; and when

    some of my friends  ther

    t t, I

    it  parts of my education -- make ters,

    tsmen only at first, if possible, migers at last,

    so t t find game large en