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a grand coup. (See ''Quick-sight," among the games.) 



BIG-GAME HUNTING 



(By permission of the Campfire Club of America.) 



Inasmuch as Hunting Big Game must be recognized in 

 our Ust of national outdoor sports, it should be elevated 

 to a higher plane by the adoption of these rules, because 

 they tend to give the utmost prominence to the many ad- 

 mirable features of the chase, and at the same time reduce 

 the total sum of destruction. 



To have gone alone into the haunts of big game, that is 

 to say, without professional guide, and by fair hunting, 

 unaided by traps or poison, or dogs (except where marked 

 "d"), have killed and saved for good purposes, in absolute 

 accordance with the game laws, any of the following kinds of 

 game (or others of a corresponding character), counts 

 honors as below: 



Each species counts one coup; that is, one Tiger would 

 count one coup, ten Tigers would not count any more, and 

 when he gets his Tiger, his Moose, etc., the sportsman is 

 supposed to stop so far as that species is concerned. 



The presence of a professional hunter reduces a grand 

 coup to a coup, and if he took any part in the actual killing 

 it does not count at all. A native gun-bearer is not nec- 

 essarily a professional guide. 



COUP 



Black Bear (d) Water-buck 



Puma (d) Deer 



Gray Wolf (d) Moose, Wapiti, etc. 



Wild Boar, otherwise than Tiger (from elephant-back 



with spear (d) or Machan) 



Caribou 14-foot Crocodile or Alligator 



