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jThe Importationof Game and the
Acclimatisation Society.
TO THE EDITOB OE SHE AUSTBAIASIAN.
. Sir,—I was much pleased to see the remarks
made by " Cartridge" in yopr; paper on Satur
day, urging the advisability of importing
pheasants or partridges on a larger ecale than
tbat at present adopted by the Acclimatisation
Society. 1 '
; Those remarks being entirely in accordance
with my own views, I naturally think well of
them, and feel disposed to pat Mr. "Cart
ridge" on the back accordingly ; but tbat
object alone would hardly perhaps Justify my
troubling you with this letter, which I write
because I am in the hope that, if people will
bpt express their several opinions on the
Bnbject, the Acclimatisation Society wilt be
convinced that a majority would vastly prefer
tbat they should concentrate their efforts upon
the early establishment of two or three defer
ent sorts of game, than that they should pursue
the present course of importing small quantities
of all sorts from every country under the hub.
Understand me, Sir, I have not the
slightest desire to disparage the exertions bf
tbe society, quite the contrary. T am the
fond parent of fire eons, ranging from two to
twelve, and I feel grateful to the society when •
I think that at least the two-year-old Will pro-1
bably be able some day to fill his bag with
Oalifornian quail, Madagascar partridges,1
American prairie-hens, Bengal eandgrbuse,
Gape and China pheasants, Japanese pigeons,
Ate., besides the old-fashioned birds, in the
slaughter of wbioh bis father was wont in
other days andotberolimes to delight himself.
$agaia, bebhould a^jro^nenoe rather
with the rifle than the gun, it wiIFbe a great
tbihgfyr him tolewn to measurtdistandesi
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