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This requires good marksmansliip, and is legitimate 

 sport." 



Certain it is that this form of capture is not nearly 

 so bad as driving the timid creatures to the water, 

 where the sportsman (?) is waiting in a canoe, with a 

 strong-armed guide, ready to follow the quarry, when 

 it swims, and to murder it with a charge of buckshot 

 at close range. 



The shooting at night by the aid of a light, called 

 a "jack" or "jack-lantern," is as bad as driving the 

 deer to the water by day — even worse, I may say, 

 since the murder is done at night. The "jack" has 

 been put to a very proper use by Mr. George Shiras, 

 of Pittsburg, and a number of other sportsmen, who 

 use a camera. The deer attracted by the light stand 

 very nicely to have their pictures taken, at short 

 range. The flash-light also is used, of course, when 

 the exposure is made, the " jack " being simply to 

 hold the deer, until the artist is within range. Mr. 

 Shiras cruising with a " jack-light " at night secured 

 a remarkable series of flash-light pictures of deer in 

 Michigan. This is an interesting, and the only le- 

 gitimate, form of " jacking " deer. It furnishes all the 

 excitement of the night-chase, without the murder at 

 the end. The fact that Mr. Shiras was able to take 

 a number of excellent portraits of the deer at very 

 close range, indicates how easy it was to pot the ani- 

 mals with a jack-lantern and shot-gun before the law 

 prohibited such killing. 



The use of dogs on deer being prohibited, all that 

 remains to be said about the use of these animals in 

 connection with the rifle, relates to bear-hunting, cou- 



