Excerpt from The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway: With an Account of the Seals and Salt-Water Fishes of Those Countries Throughout these pages the reader will observe, that in many instances I have entered considerably into detail when describing the various' devices - some of a rude, though efficacious nature adopted in these Northern climes for the capture and destruction of birds and four-footed animals; but no apology on my part is, I am sure, needful, as such particulars cannot but be interesting to the British sportsman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.