Good Hunting 



especially the big game, being entirely 

 unused to contend with the new foe, suc- 

 cumbs easily, and is almost completely 

 killed out. If any individuals survive 

 at all, however, the succeeding genera- 

 tions are far more difficult to exterminate 

 than, were their ancestors, and they cling 

 much more tenaciously to their old homes. 

 The game to be found in old and long- 

 settled countries is much more wary and 

 able to take care of itself than the game 

 of an untrodden wilderness. It is a very 

 difficult matter to kill a Swiss chamois; 

 but it is a very easy matter to kill a white 

 goat after a hunter has once penetrated 

 among the almost unknown peaks of the 

 mountains of British Columbia. When, 

 the ranchmen first drove their cattle to 

 the Little Missouri they found the deer 

 tame and easy to kill, but the deer of 

 Maine and the Adirondacks test to the full 

 the highest skill of the hunter. 

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