LET US GO AFIELD 



lief bag one of those tigers as any other trophy in 

 the world, and I have often planned to make that 

 trip, which ought not to cost more than the mere 

 trifle of ten or twenty thousand dollars. 



There are other trophies, however, which in the 

 eye of the big-game sharp outweigh perhaps even 

 the best of the Asiatic tigers. The giant mountain 

 sheep of Tibet, Ovis poll, and that other great sheep 

 known as Ovis ammon, would rank in the belief of 

 the experts as the capital trophies of all the world. 

 They come just a trifle high. Of course you are 

 now getting into trips when you mention the polar 

 bear, the moose of the Northwest Territory, and the 

 great trophies of Asia which mean a year or two 

 devoted to the single purpose of sporting. Usually 

 the boss does not wish to let us off for so long a 

 vacation, and the average salary of fifteen dollars a 

 week, which represents the average income of the 

 average American citizen, does not go so far as it 

 ought when spread out over a proposition of this 

 kind. Big-game hunting today is a question of time 

 and money. Fifteen dollars a week and two weeks' 

 vacation a year do not get us much in the way of 

 sheep and tigers. 



Closer at home we still have some countries that, 

 for the boy or young man of today, must fulfill all 



the feasible dreams of wild life in the wilderness. 



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