LET US GO AFIELD 



sorts ; but, though I have not cared for many years 

 to kill a deer, a recent hunt developed the fact that 

 there is fully as much nervous jolt in seeing a good, 

 big deer as there is in meeting a bear, though the 

 two sensations are entirely different. Perhaps it is 

 the great alertness, beauty, power, and speed of 

 the deer that make the hunter's blood start and his 

 eyes shine eagerly. Getting your bear after you see 

 him is rather more of a business undertaking. In 

 any case the zest of hunting the deer is centuries 

 old, and is still as keen as ever. 



As showing the popularity of the sport of deer- 

 hunting, it is estimated that there were between 

 forty thousand and sixty thousand deerhunters out 

 in Wisconsin alone last season ; the figures are hard 

 to obtain with exactness. Express cars coming 

 down out of the pine woods in the month of Novem- 

 ber sometimes are packed almost full of deer car- 

 casses not so many now as when two or three 

 deer might legally be exported, but still hundreds 

 and hundreds in the total. 



So it seems we Americans may still enjoy in 

 goodly numbers the ancient and royal sport of hunt- 

 ing deer. We should be able always to enjoy it, did 

 we look upon the matter in a businesslike way and 

 refrain from killing all the deer we could at all 

 possible times. The likelihood is that in view of 



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