The Coming of Winter 



as the settler comes in and the land gets more 

 under cultivation, they naturally get more 

 scarce. Parties are sometimes formed to go 

 and try for some, but they seem to meet with 

 very indifferent success, and for the settler who 

 means farming, the game seems hardly worth the 

 candle, as the saying is. There is, too, a certain 

 amount of risk, as very inexperienced hunters are 

 apt to join such parties, ready to shoot at any 

 moving object among the timber, and a horse 

 or ox, not to mention another hunter, may easily 

 fall a victim to the rifle of such a one. So much 

 is this the case that a discussion has arisen as 

 to the propriety of hunters wearing a dress of 

 some special colour to distinguish them from the 

 hunted. 



Perhaps the danger is hardly as great in these 

 regions as in some parts of British Columbia, 

 where inexperienced young fellows are apt to 

 come out from the towns, ready to shoot at 

 almost anything, especially between two shining 

 objects, taking them for the eyes of deer or other 

 wild animals, if they see them in the dark. Under 

 these circumstances people may well go in fear 

 for themselves and their stock. 



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