XX 



A GENTLE SPORTSMAN 



All the skill of woodcraft that goes 

 to the making of the successful hunter 

 with the gun, must be possessed by him 

 who hunts his game with the camera. 

 His must be the stealthy, panther-like 

 tread that breaks no twig nor rustles the 

 fallen leaves. His the eye that reads 

 at a glance the signs that to the ordi- 

 nary sight are a blank or at most are an 

 untranslatable enigma. His a patience 

 that counts time as nothing when meas- 

 ured with the object sought. When by 

 the use and practice of these, he has 

 drawn within a closer range of his timid 

 game than his brother of the gun need 

 attain, he pulls trigger of a weapon that 

 destroys not, but preserves its unharmed 

 quarry in the very counterfeit of life and 

 motion. The wild world is not made 

 the poorer by one life for his shot, nor 

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