Good Hunting 



this is especially true of northwestern 

 Wyoming, since that great animal-pre- 

 serve the Yellowstone Park swarms with 

 elk, and is their natural nursery and 

 breeding-ground. 



The elk is the lordliest of his kind 

 throughout the world. The Scotch stag 

 is a pygmy but a fourth his size. The 

 stags of eastern Europe are larger than 

 those of Scotland, and in Asia larger still, 

 approaching in size a small wapiti. They 

 are all substantially alike except in size. 



The wapiti is rather easier to kill than 

 the deer, because his size makes it easier 

 to see him ; and he is slower in his move- 

 ments, so that he is easier to hit. When 

 pressed he can gallop very hard for a few 

 hundred yards, but soon becomes tired. 

 The trot is his natural gait, and this he 

 can keep up for hours at a time, going at 

 a pace which makes it necessary for a 

 horse to gallop smartly to overtake him, 

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