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a hilly country, where the white-tails are found in 

 almost impassable swamps and well educated, they are 

 safe from my gun, without the use of dogs. On such 

 ground I have seen many hunters in the woods for 

 days at a time, singly and in company, who even with 

 the aid of dogs did not get a single shot at the crafty 

 animals, which were known to be living on the ground 

 they hunted over. Where deer are so scarce and so 

 wary that the chance for a shot only comes once in 

 several years, I beg to be allowed to go after the 

 grouse. In Maine and Michigan, in the Adirondacks, 

 and in the Western mountains, in West Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky, Tennessee, Texas, and many other States, there 

 are places where the journey by canoe or with pack- 

 train is delightful, where the camps are picturesque and 

 comfortable, and where, at the opening of the season, 

 the chances of the hunter's getting the two or three 

 white-tails which he is now permitted by the laws 

 to shoot in a season are very good, and on some of the 

 grounds named he may have a chance to kill a moose, 

 mule-deer, or elk. 



In most of the States, however, he must procure a 

 license to shoot ($50 in Wyoming and $15 to $25 else- 

 where) and must obey strict rules as to the tagging 

 and shipping of his game, if allowed to ship it at all. In 

 many places he is required to take a guide who is also 

 a game-warden. He must in most places be able 

 to kill his game by still-hunting, but he may get a shot 

 now and then from his canoe or from the saddle when 

 on the march. 



For Eastern sportsmen the woods of Maine and 

 New Brunswick no doubt offer the best chance. The 



