TRACKS AND TRACKING 



sible to bring a hunting preserve up to the high- 

 est standard, and for the same reason their unre- 

 stricted existence in the open hunting grounds 

 can only be harmful. The time when predatory 

 animals kept the number of other game in a 

 healthy balance has passed, and the sportsman 

 who kills half a dozen deer ought to have to his 

 credit at least one member of the former tribe to 

 offset his killing those of the latter. As few 

 of the hunting fraternity attain this desirable 

 result, I think those who kill as many or more 

 marauders as they do useful game animals, 

 ought to be hailed as benefactors to the sports- 

 men's fraternity. Sometimes, I am sorry to 

 say, such an action is referred to as unsports- 

 manlike by those who would soon find the 

 woods empty of desirable game if others gave no 

 more attention to marauders than they do them- 

 selves. 



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