CHAPTER II 



PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE SPORTSMAN 



As I have before said, I wish to interest the 

 sportsman in this book more than any other one 

 class of individuals, for I think it is to him, largely, 

 that we must look in the future for a large per- 

 centage of the pictures which we will get of ani- 

 mal life, especially of the larger mammals: the 

 deer, moose, caribou, elk, bear, wildcat, etc. 



By sportsmen I mean, not those men who 

 shoot from the pure love of killing something, 

 and whose sole ambition is to kill as much as 

 possible in a given length of time. They are the 

 ones who helped to exterminate our buffalo, and 

 who are now doing all they can to lessen the di- 

 minishing numbers of the elk and caribou still in 

 this country; who find pleasure in standing on 

 the deck of a Florida river boat and shooting 

 the alligators and any other wild life they may 

 see on the shore as the boat passes; and who 

 would as soon shoot a grouse or a woodcock on 

 its nest as flying. They have none of the true 

 sportsman's blood in them and are, consequently, 



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