THE LAURENTIDES PARK 



bands running into the hundreds have 

 been seen on the snowy mountain-sides, 

 and, without much difficulty, have been 

 approached and photographed. These 

 animals, so wary in summer and in the 

 early autumn, appear to gain confidence 

 by their numbers, and are easily stalked, 

 and all too easily shot. It is to be feared 

 that too great an annual toll is taken, 

 and that the herd is being diminished 

 by more than the amount of its natural 

 increase. At the same time it must be 

 remembered that for fifty or sixty years, 

 and perhaps for a much longer time, 

 sportsmen from every quarter of the 

 globe have visited this famous " Jar- 

 din," and have seldom failed to carry 

 away a good head ; also that in the days 

 when this was everyman's land, and 

 scarcely any restrictions were enforced 

 as to season or amount of game, the 

 slaughter must have been much greater 

 than it is to-day. Perhaps, then, there 

 is no cause for immediate alarm, but the 

 no 



