20 Deer and Antelope of North America 



can preserve the game and can prevent its be- 

 coming purely the property of the rich, who are 

 able to create and maintain extensive private pre- 

 serves. The very wealthy man can get hunting 

 anyhow, but the man of small means is depen- 

 dent solely upon wise and well-executed game 

 laws for his enjoyment of the sturdy pleasure of 

 the chase. In Maine, in Vermont, in the Adiron- 

 dack^, even in parts of Massachusetts and on Long 

 Island too, people have waked up to this fact, 

 particularly so far as the common whitetail deer 

 is concerned, and in Maine also as regards the 

 moose and caribou. The effect is shown in the 

 increase in all these animals. Such game protec- 

 tion results, in the first place, in securing to the 

 people who live in the neighborhood permanent 

 opportunities for hunting; and in the next place, 

 it provides no small source of wealth to the local- 

 ity because of the visitors which it attracts. A 

 deer wild in the woods is worth to the people of 

 the neighborhood many times the value of its 

 carcass, because of the way it attracts sportsmen, 

 who give employment and leave money behind 

 them. 



True sportsmen, worthy of the name, men who 

 shoot only in season and in moderation, do no 

 harm whatever to game. The most objection- 

 able of all game destroyers is, of course, the kind 

 of game butcher who simply kills for the sake 



