INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



hunter and who also knows how to provide 

 a first-class outfit. 



Game has greatly decreased before the 

 advance of civilization and the wanton 

 slaughter which took no thought of the 

 future; the wild life which survives owes its 

 preservation to the almost inaccessible char- 

 acter of the country in which it has taken 

 refuge, and to its own cunning, which of 

 necessity has become very acute. 



To know the habitat of game and outwit 

 its wariness requires the skill of the practiced 

 hunter. 



We have heard a great deal about rough- 

 ing it. That phrase as formerly understood 

 must be greatly qualified if the modern 

 sportsman patronizes an up-to-date outfit. 



Going to a wild and rather inaccessible 

 country has about it a certain charm of 

 novelty, and part of that charm grows out of 

 the idea of roughing it. Some people have a 

 tendency to greatly exaggerate the ordeals 

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