346 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
CHAPTER XVIII 
BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA 
By CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY 
Many statements to the contrary notwithstanding, I venture to 
assert that, in spite of the evil doings of the ‘scallawag’ and 
the meat-hunter, there is still quite enough big game in many 
parts of the American continent to amply satisfy the desires of 
any reasonable big game hunter, meaning by that term one 
who is content to work moderately hard in an exquisite climate, 
free from fever and other Oriental troubles, for a few good 
trophies every suena: and enough meat to keep his camp 
supplied. 
It is undoubtedly true that you cannot any longer kill 
hundreds of head of big game to your own rifle in one season; 
it is also true that the game laws of Canada and the United © 
States have somewhat curtailed the liberty of the sportsman ; 
but it is true too that amongst English sportsmen the number _ 
of those who would care to shoot down hundreds of stags, &c. _ 
in one season is limited, and that not a few of them realise — 
that the game laws of America, though often ill-framed and ~ 
always badly enforced, are still in the best interests of those — 
whom they control. There are, of course, mistakes in every — 
code of laws. For instance, it is a mistake I think to protect — 
sheep absolutely in Colorado, while wapiti are not similarly — 
protected ; for sheep are now more numerous there than wapiti, 
are much less easily obtained by the meat-hunter, and are less q 
profitable to him when he has obtained them. 
