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to be too long, he can carry about anything he 

 chooses, including a tent, any amount of bedding, 

 and if it is very cold, a small, portable stove, not 

 to speak of elaborate cooking apparatus. If he 

 goes with a pack-train, he will also be able to 

 carry a good deal ; but in such a case he must 

 rely on the judgment of the trained packers, un- 

 less he is himself an expert in the diamond hitch. 

 If it becomes necessary to go on foot for any 

 length of time, he must be prepared to do genuine 

 roughing, and must get along with the minimum 

 of absolute necessities. 



It is hardly necessary to point out that the 

 hunter worthy of the name should be prepared 

 to shift for himself in emergencies. A ranch- 

 man, or any other man whose business takes him 

 much in the mountains and out on the great 

 plains or among the forests, ought to be able 

 to get along entirely on his own account. But 

 this cannot usually be done by those whose ex- 

 istence is habitually more artificial. When a man 

 who normally lives a rather over-civilized life, 

 an over-luxurious life, especially in the great 

 cities gets off for a few weeks' hunting, he can- 

 not expect to accomplish much in the way of 

 getting game without calling upon the services 

 of a trained guide, woodsman, plainsman, or moun- 

 tain man, whose life-work it has been to make him- 

 self an adept in all the craft of the wilderness. 



