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BACK through the crowded centuries as far as the search- 

 ing light of an inquisitive history has ever been able 

 to illuminate the age-stained records of the human race 

 we find the thrilling stories of the mighty hunter. On the 

 weathered tablets of ancient Babylon, in the dusty rolls of 

 Egyptian papyrus, in the stirring epics and inspired legends 

 of the gifted Greeks, through the myriad years from the hazy 

 evidence of the paleslithic relics to the contemporary lives of 

 the present day savage, the fearless warrior and the mighty 

 hunter stand side by side, the unrivaled heroes of those count- 

 less struggling peoples. Indeed it was not till the irresistible 

 advance of science and the persistent, though interrupted 

 progress of civilization had led the majority of the favored 

 nations into new occupations far removed from the primeval 

 life that the successful hunter lost his great prestige. Even 



day the biographer cannot refrain if furnished even the 



imsiest excuse from adding to his eulogy, "and he was a 

 mighty hunter." 



An ardent spirit bred into men through all these countless 

 centuries cannot be lightly cast aside. We've all seen dogs 

 trained through hundreds of years to domestic life revert to 

 the savage predatory animal after only a few days' freedom 

 in the lonely wilderness; we've seen the Indians taken for a 

 time from their careless, wandering life and trained to the 

 so-called comforts of the civilized man slide quickly and joy- 

 fully back to the lower level of his untamed tribe. It's the 

 seductive call of the luring wild from which we all have come 

 some a short way, some a few steps more and few indeed 

 are those unfortunates who never feel an answering thrill. 



Rare are the men, no matter how far their culture has ad- 

 vanced nor how highly their sensibilities have been developed, 

 who, if the proper game be found do not feel the challenge 

 and rejoice in the chance to pit their cunning or their courage 

 against the instincts of the wild things of the forest, and, if 



