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alone. They do not altogether appreciate the amount of 

 work which going single-handed involves, and not used to 

 being entirely alone in the wilds, they imagine that it is 

 dreary, I suppose no words from me will cause them to 

 change their opinions on the subject. Individually, I like it, 

 perhaps because it is what I have been accustomed to for so 

 many years, and because it gives me opportunities of doing 

 the work I enjoy, to the best advantage ; for there is no 

 question that animals can be studied when one is alone far 

 better than if two or three people are together. Quietness is 

 the keynote of success in such work. It is difficult enough to 

 practise it alone, but in company it is practically impossible. 



The man who would hunt in Newfoundland must make 

 up his mind to lead a thoroughly simple life. He must not 

 expect the comforts of an African safari, where chairs and 

 tables are considered essential and a bath-tub is carried, 

 where one is waited on hand and foot, and where clothes are 

 changed for dinner, which is served on a white table-cloth. 

 Such luxurious living is not for the northern wilds. The bare 

 necessities of life are the only luxuries to be had, and one is 

 very thankful for them. In place of the chair the dry side of a 

 log is used ; the table, unless in a long term camp, is one's 

 lap ; the " hot " bath is the nearest river or pond, and the 

 bath " tent " is the great out-doors. Folding beds are 

 forgotten in the far better couch of springy spruce boughs 

 piled up a foot deep on the mossy ground. It is all very 

 primitive, but it has a strong appeal to the man with good 

 red blood in his veins. The namby-pamby has no place out 

 in those woods and hills ; he is not wanted, and for his own 

 sake it were better that he stayed at home and found his 

 sport among the domesticated game of old England. 



It is customary when camping in Newfoundland to take a 

 guide and " helper," or cook. A good guide makes the trip. 



