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half -tamed by kindness, is about equal to that of going into a 

 farmer's pasture at dawn and killing a sleeping calf. This year, 

 however, our friend established a game protection more effective 

 than the California law. For three days before the hunting season 

 opened a forest ranger was hired to climb back and forth up the 



Fig. 3. Tramping up Mount Washburn. 



mountains, firing blank cartridges at all the deer in sight. In 

 this manner the frightemed creatures were driven so high up 

 among the remote peaks that when, at the legal time, the sports- 

 men came to their usual haunts, they did not secure a single 

 deer. 



We cut wood and removed the bark from tree-trunks with 

 sharp-edged rocks and were thus independent of knives and 



