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way twenty-eight bison in a week. This is not sport, of 

 course, nor are the performers sportsmen. The bison 

 is already, it would seem, diminishing in numbers ; 

 certainly his range is becoming greatly contracted. He 

 is one of the most harmless animals in the whole world 

 to the industry of man, and, fairly hunted, affords 

 perhaps the best sport in India ; it would be a pity, 

 then, if his numbers should be unduly diminished by 

 unsportsmanlike conduct. 



