THE BEAR 



HUNTING bears with the assistance of 

 guides supplied with a well-trained pack 

 of hounds may be satisfactory, if merely 

 the killing of them is desired, but it certainly is 

 not sport, and does not even deserve to be ranked 

 with trapping bears, as in the latter case the 

 hunter must possess at least some knowledge of 

 the quarry's habitat and habits: Unlike a fox, 

 a bear when once found by the hounds stands no 

 chance of escaping, and there would be just as 

 much sport in shooting the animal in a park or 

 pen as in killing a run-to-bay bear. This ap- 

 plies also with truth to mountain lions, although 

 perhaps there is in the case of the cougar the 

 excuse of the animal's destructiveness. 



The employment of dogs in the chase would 

 never exterminate or even appreciably lessen the 

 number of deer in any hunting country where 

 lakes are not abundant, but everywhere it surely 



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