THE LAUEENTIDES PAEK 



moderate areas to individuals and to 

 clubs. The first requirement of these 

 grants is that the lessee shall appoint a 

 guardian, approved by the department, 

 and shall cause the conceded territories 

 to be protected in an adequate and satis- 

 factory manner. Having a direct and 

 personal interest in the results, he is 

 careful to see that the guardian does not 

 fail in his duty, and he is able to form a 

 very correct judgement upon the point 

 from his observation of conditions from 

 year to year. The guardian, for his 

 part, is immediately answerable to an 

 individual who pays his salary and con- 

 trols expenditures for building camps, 

 cutting trails, making punts and sup- 

 plying firewood. Perquisites of this 

 kind are likely to depend to a large 

 extent upon his own honesty and dili- 

 gence; he contrasts his former precar- 

 ious living as trapper or braconnier 

 with the assured competence which he 

 now earns more easily, and makes his 



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