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and Vermont during the last generation have 

 waked up to this fact. Moose and deer in New 

 Brunswick and Maine, deer in Vermont, are so 

 much more plentiful than they were a generation 

 ago that young men of sufficient address and 

 skill can at small cost spend a holiday in the 

 woods, or on the edge of the rough backwoods 

 farm land, and be reasonably sure of a moose 

 or a deer. To all three commonwealths the 

 game is now a real asset because each moose 

 or deer alive in the woods brings in, from the 

 outside, men who spend among the inhabitants 

 much more than the money value of the dead 

 animal; and to the lover of nature the presence 

 of these embodiments of the wild vigor of life 

 adds immensely to the vast majesty of the 

 forests. 



In Canada there are many great national 

 reserves; and much — by no means all — of 

 the wilderness wherein shooting is allowed, is 

 intelligently and faithfully protected, so that 

 the game does not diminish. In the summer of 

 1915 we caught a glimpse of one of these great 

 reserves, that including the wonderful moun- 

 tains on the line of the Canadian Pacific, from 

 Banff to Lake Louise, and for many leagues 

 around them. The naked or snow-clad peaks, 

 the lakes, the glaciers, the evergreen forest 



