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left but not many, and all are rather highly trained 

 in suspiciousness and resourcefulness. Colorado 

 now has a bill before it looking toward the protec- 

 tion of the grizzly bear. All the old bear stories of 

 history used to teach us that the grizzly bear was 

 the one creature in the world which could take care 

 of himself, but he could not. Today the grizzly is 

 one of the most timid of wild animals, one of the 

 least dangerous, and one of the most expensive. 



As for the cost of a lion or tiger hunt, it runs 

 into so much money that the average American 

 hunter cannot figure on it at all. The successful 

 great-game hunter of today must have not only 

 sporting qualities but financial resources to back 

 him up. 



Where are the great-game countries of the world 

 today ? This question has been much to the fore of 

 late, for within the last five years there have been 

 more great-game trophies brought to America than 

 in any fifty years of the earlier history of this coun- 

 try. More and more you hear about some of our 

 best people who have felt it incumbent on them to 

 go out and do something sporting in the way of big 

 game. The heads of the mountain sheep, of the elk, 

 of the many beautiful African antelopes, of the 

 great Cape buflfalo, the skins of this or that animal 

 known or unknown to the public these things you 



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