VI 

 THE GREAT-GAME FIELDS OF THE WORLD 



PERHAPS you paid a hundred and fifty, two 

 hundred, or two hundred and fifty dollars for 

 the grizzly-bear rug in your den. If you have 

 a perfect tiger rug in the reception hall your friends 

 will know you once had at least five hundred dollars 

 or else your credit was good. Try to kill your own 

 grizzly or your own tiger, and you will think that 

 the only time you ever solved the high-cost-of -living 

 puzzle was when you bought the skins and did not 

 try to kill the animals at first hand. 



That you could today take a thousand dollars 

 and go out and kill a grizzly bear with your own 

 rifle is very doubtful. Very likely you might be 

 obliged to make several trips before you found one. 

 Certainly you would have to go a long distance and 

 outfit at considerable expense. A friend of the 

 writer got a grizzly in Canada last spring. It re- 

 quired a forty-days' trip with a pack train. The 

 betting is a thousand to one that you will never kill 

 a grizzly inside the United States. There are a few 



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