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drill, will turn their attention to hunting and trapping as 

 means of education ; and, instead of sending occasional de- 

 tachments of schoolboys in summer on mere aimless pedes- 

 trian journeys, or into mock encampments, will annually 

 organize regiments of stalwart youth for penetrating, even in 

 winter, the savage regions far beyond the frontiers of civiliza- 

 tion, and doing real service as hunters and trappers of wild 

 beasts — a service, in my opinion, as dignified and discipli- 

 nary, to say the least, as war. 



