10 CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



he has been accompanied by from one to three boon 

 companions, and the localities visited have ranged 

 from the interior of Newfoundland in the north to the 

 sand-dunes and palmetto swamps washed by the warm 

 waters of the Gulf in the south, and westward to the 

 shores of the placid Pacific. 



As these pilgrimages have extended into seventeen 

 States and Territories and the Dominion of Canada, 

 he has learned much from practical experience with 

 regard to the haunts and habits of our native game 

 and fishes from the ungainly moose, noble elk and 

 caribou, to the diminutive chipmunk, and from the 

 Silver King to the sprightly sunfish. The note-book 

 and camera have always been close companions, and 

 as Time's wheels roll on they afford much pleasure, 

 in recalling to mind many incidents of our sports 

 afield. 



Born and reared as he was among the mountains of 

 central Pennsylvania, where half a century ago game 

 was plentiful, and where, under the tutelage of his 

 now venerable father who is yet an ardent sports- 

 man, though in his eighty-second year he learned 

 the use of the rod and gun at a very tender age. Is 

 it any wonder, then, that when the sap begins to fall 

 and the leaves to change color in the autumn, he be- 

 comes restless under the yoke of arduous professional 



