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his concern lies solely with the dollars. But he has a 

 vote, and so the politicians pamper him. 



The game laws of Newfoundland are as sound as 

 those of any country I have visited. They do not per- 

 mit the guides to shoot when accompanying a sports- 

 man, though of course at other times each guide has 

 his right, as a citizen, to kill five deer. This is an 

 excellent regulation, for when the sportsman has shot 

 his three heads he can kill no more, and may as well 

 leave the country. In other circumstances he might 

 buy from his men their right to shoot the five each to 

 which they are entitled, and a certain number of sports- 

 men would undoubtedly do so an evasion of the law 

 which could only lead to bad results. If Newfoundland 

 would but add an absolute prohibition, under a heavy 

 penalty, of the sale or exposure for sale of the trophy of 

 any indigenous wild animal, her game laws would be as 

 nearly perfect as one can expect such laws to be. 

 Perhaps, however, they might be altered in one other 

 point. A 10 licence permits the foreigner or visiting 

 sportsman to shoot three stags. This places the person 

 who goes up to Howley and in two days shoots that 

 number of prickets as the deer cross the line on their 

 migration on the same footing with the man who 

 spends six weeks in the interior looking for three fine 

 heads. If, instead of this, the law allowed a stag for 

 every week spent hunting, the law would be more just 

 and fewer stags be unworthily slain. Incidentally the 

 country would benefit, as the hunter who goes into the 

 interior spends, say, 100 as against the 10 note of the 

 railway sportsman. 



To return to our start in the steamer from Glenwood. 

 After proceeding about three-quarters of a mile down 



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