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district rarely answers the call. It is generally one of the 

 less successful candidates for that honour, and the killing of 

 such to a moderate extent is not an unmixed evil. Of eight 

 bulls called in 1906 upon the ground I hunted two, both 

 spanning over fifty inches, were shot, and all were, as far 

 as could be seen, warrantable beasts. 



The killing of moose after a date when the snow is really 

 deep should also be absolutely prohibited. Canada has 

 done great things for her big game during the last decades ; 

 it is to be hoped that she will not pause now, but will con- 

 tinue on her course and carry the wisdom which she has 

 exercised in her woods into the shops of her towns, so that 

 soon her moose and caribou will no longer bear on their 

 antlers a price that means a sentence of death from any 

 wandering rifle. 



