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guides in Maine are good, the travelling is largeW 

 done in a canoe, the camps are beside streams and 

 lakes which contain trout and sometimes bass. The 

 sportsman in the Maine woods may kill a moose. He 

 may possibly have a chance to shoot a black bear. 

 He certainly will hnd the ruffed grouse and the Can- 

 ada grouse, more often called spruce partridge, and in 

 New Brunswick he may add a caribou to the bag. 



There are many excellent guides in Maine who 

 know the good camping-places and where to look for 

 the game. There are also excellent guides in the 

 Adirondacks, and, as already indicated, there are 

 many deer in these hills. The best shooting, no 

 doubt, is on some of the game-preserves. 



The North Woods, as the Adirondack region is often 

 called, are wonderfully picturesque. There is nothing 

 sublime about the mountains; in fact, they seem some- 

 what small to one who has climbed the Western peaks 

 for the big-horn and white goat, but the thousands of 

 little water-ways winding about through the forest- 

 clad hills, the many lily-ponds and lakes — the latter 

 sometimes dotted with small islands — make the jour- 

 ney by canoe an easy one to camping-places where the 

 deer-stalker may take his trout for breakfast from 

 his front door and shoot his grouse in the back-yard. 

 Without the aid of dogs, and now that it is illegal to 

 murder deer by "jacking" them at night, there is 

 much less venison in the Adirondack camps than for- 

 merly, but an industrious sportsman who has learned 

 the science of still-hunting has a chance to match his 

 wits against the smartest deer of them all, and whether 

 he wins or no, he is sure of an outing that will end 



