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head had a good span. The best head of the 

 season, killed by a resident in Jackson, had seven 

 points on each horn. In Scotland it would have 

 been called a fourteen-pointer, but in the States 

 the points on one horn only are reckoned. The 

 tines on this head were fairly well defined, but it 

 was narrow and ugly in appearance. 



There were also an unusual number of hunters 

 out. Three days after reaching the camp from 

 which we intended to start operations, we counted 

 eight other hunting parties within a radius of six 

 miles. So elated, indeed, and dazzled was the local 

 J.P. at the sight of the two thousand odd dollars 

 collected on hunting licences that he skipped off 

 with a pack-horse one fine morning, and up to the 

 date on which I left Jackson, the magnificent reward 

 of $25 offered for his capture had failed to find a 

 claimant. This same gentleman issued my licence 

 ($50), and judging from his very watery eye and 

 shaking hand, a combination which he naively attri- 

 buted to a long day's ride in a high wind (" Gee ! 

 all the wind he got was from the electric fan ! " 

 said a bystander), there would be but little diffi- 

 culty in guessing where most of the $2000 went ! 



Every non-resident hunter must have a resident 

 guide with him, and assuming that every one of 

 these eight camps contained two hunters, a grand 

 total of at least thirty-two men were roaming the 

 surrounding country intent on the slaughter of bull 

 wapiti. The unfortunate animals were quite 'cute 



