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they were shamelessly slaughtered. I have found 

 heads myself left in this abominable condition ; heads, 

 too, which any sportsman would have been only too 

 glad to hang up on his walls had he killed them in 

 fair hunting. Yarnall told me that five or six years 

 ago, when out with a hunting party, he found six 

 freshly killed bull wapiti with the teeth, of course, 

 gone. Having a pretty good notion as to the identity 

 of the sportsman who had been thus amusing himself, 

 he followed him up, and three days later arrested 

 him. When searched he was found with sixteen 

 pairs of teeth on him, and was proved to have mailed 

 over forty pairs to Helena the week before. He 

 pleaded guilty at his trial, and was fined What do 

 you think? Five pounds! The feelings of anyone 

 who has the preservation of big game at heart are 

 better imagined than described ! 



In an otherwise altogether excellent article on 

 "The White Goat and his Country," Mr. Owen 

 Wister, the author of that delightful book, " The 

 Virginian," makes one remark which I should prefer 

 to have seen differently expressed. It is this : " One 

 cannot expect Englishmen to care whether American 

 big game is exterminated or not ; that Americans 

 should not is a disgrace." It is a disgrace, and Ameri- 

 can sportsmen should be ashamed at having allowed 

 such a thing to happen. They deplore the loss of the 

 bison (which was inevitable) and his wholesale and 

 undisturbed extermination, whilst they shut their eyes 

 to the fact that exactly the same thing has been going 



