ON BIG GAME SHOOTING GENERALLY 3 
n passes, through which in later days the locomotives 
4 will tush and the world’s less venturous spirits come in time to 
reap their harvests and make fortunes in the footsteps of those 
_ who ask nothing better than to spend their strength and wealth 
_ in the first encounter with an untrodden world, living as hard 
as wolves, and content to think themselves rich in the pos- 
_ session of a few gnarled horns and grizzled hides. As for us 
_ who are Englishmen, it is well for us to remember that in most 
' lands in which we shoot we are but guests, and the beasts we 
_ hunt are not only the property of the natives, but one of their 
_ most important sources of food supply. Bearing this in mind, 
__ we should be moderate in the toll we take of the great game, 
and considerate even of those who may not be strong enough 
_ to enforce their wishes. The recklessness of one man ina 
_ country where foreigners are few may suffice to damn a whole 
nation in the eyes of a prejudiced people, and it is worth 
_ while to recollect that any one of us who strays off the world’s 
beaten tracks may serve for a type of his nation to men who 
_ have never seen another sample of an Englishman. : 
_ Looked at from any point of view, the wholesale slaughter 
_ of big game must be condemned by every thinking man. The 
_ sportsman who in one season is lucky enough to obtain a dozen 
_ good heads does no harm to anybody, and probably does good 
_to the bands of game in his district by killing off the oldest of 
the stags or rams. But the man who kills fifty or a hundred 
foolish ‘rhinos’ (beasts, according to Mr. Jackson, which any 
man can stalk) in one year, or scores of cariboo at the crossings 
uring their annual migration in Newfoundland, or deer and 
sheep by the hundred in America, shocks humanity and does 
grave injury to his class. The waste of good meat is quite 
intolerable ; kindly natured men hate to hear of the infliction 
0 Sieditss pain, and waste of innocent animal life ; good 
a ‘sportsmen recoil in disgust from a record of butchery misnamed 
- sport, for, according to the very first article of their creed, it is 
difficulty of the chase which gives value to the trophies. 
there were no difficulties, no dangers, no hardships, then the 
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