SPORTING TERMS AND BIG CATS 341 



while all thinking people regret the wholesale 

 slaughter of wild creatures by gunners, we must 

 remember that the only intelligent efforts to pre- 

 serve the wild life of this country are to be found 

 in the game laws suggested and enforced by sports- 

 men. The city-bred men of the Eastern States 

 are sometimes inclined to look upon the Western 

 hunters as brutal fellows, but experienced explorer? 

 and travelers in the wilderness will tell you that in 

 respect to bloodthirstiness and brutality in the 

 game field the man of the wilds is 



OUTCLASSED BY THE CITY GUNNER. 



In truth the city man and the Indian equipped 

 with modern firearms "see red" when in a good 

 game country; and they never take the trouble to 

 hunt down and kill the wounded and paunched 

 animal. I know of a case where a city man refused 

 to turn over two shells to a man who had paunched 

 a mountain ram. In this case the animal could 

 have been put out of pain easily, had the man who 

 shot it had any ammunition, and when he asked for 

 more he was refused for no reason except that the 

 city man did not fancy returning to camp with an 

 empty gun. Possibly he feared some fierce marmot 

 or little chief-hare might attack him. 



A REAL MOUNTAIN MAN, 



one of those fellows the city people look upon 

 as a bloody man, will often follow a wounded ani- 



