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musk-ox population as a whole. This leads us to hope and 

 believe that, through the difficulties involved in reaching 

 them, the main bodies of musk-ox of both species are safe 

 from extermination. 



Nevertheless the time has come for Canada, the United 

 States and Denmark to join in formulating a stiff law for the 

 prevention of wholesale slaughter of musk-ox for sport. It 

 should be rendered impossible for another "sportsman" to kill 

 twenty-three head in one day, as once occurred. Give the 

 sportsman a bag of three bulls, and no more. To this no 

 true sportsman will object, and the objections of game-hogs 

 only serve to confirm the justice of the thing they oppose. 



The Grizzly Bear. — To many persons it may seem 

 strange that any one should feel disposed to accord protection 

 to such fierce predatory animals as grizzly bears, lions and 

 tigers. But the spirit of fair play springs eternal in some 

 human breasts. The sportsmen of the world do not stick at 

 using long-range, high-power repeating rifles on big game, 

 but they draw the line this side of traps, poisons and exter- 

 mination. The sportsmen of India once thought — for about 

 a year and a day — that it was permissible to kill troublesome 

 and expensive tigers by poison. Mr. G. P. Sanderson tried 

 it, and when his strychnine operations promptly developed 

 three bloated and disgusting tiger carcasses, even his native 

 followers revolted at the principle. That was the alpha and 

 omega of Sanderson's poisoning activities. 



I am quite sure that if the extermination of the tiger from 

 the whole of India were possible, and the to-be or not-to-be 

 were put to a vote of the sportsmen of India, the answer 



