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SPORT IN EUROPE 



above, timber-line, hence this disease, having once eained a footine 

 in a preserve, must run its course, leaving the head of game reduced 

 by a third or even by a half. 



Poaching is another danger to which some shoots are more 

 exposed than others, for if the ground is surrounded on all sides by 

 shoots that are carefully preserved, the risks are far less than when 



AN AUSTRIAN SPORTSMAN'S STRECKE OR 1!AG (SEVEN CHAMOIS) 



some peasant or commune shooting marches with it. Chamois poachers 

 in Austria are not of the milk-and-water type, but sturdy mountaineers, 

 in whose breasts the passion for this dangerous sport is irrepressible, 

 so that they fearlessly risk their liberty, if not their lives, to attain 

 their end. Thus many a life is sacrificed by this mountain vendetta, 

 it becoming often absolutely necessary to dismiss a keeper who has 



