tops, nearly all within gunshot, I 

 had taken but one. Of five hundred 

 elk seen in the Jackson's Hole dis- 

 trict, one; of eighty-six antelope in 

 the Shoshones, one; of eleven bears 

 in the Rockies, one; of a hundred 

 coyotes, none (for reasons). How 

 the alleged "fantail" and the moose 

 came to join the group, has been 

 duly set forth. 



Always but an incident, not the 

 reason, for out-door living, to quote 

 an ancient saying, I had "no further 

 stomach" for killing; and when we 

 started for Reindeer land, I laid my 

 gun at the feet of this modern Nim- 

 rod, indeed " a mighty hunter before 

 the Lord" and became a devotee 

 of the New Hunting. 



Armed with camera instead of 

 gun, one receives in equal lavish 

 measure the blessings of companion- 

 ship with woods and waters; one can 

 steal from the animal his every 

 beauty and yet leave him none the 

 poorer. This ideal hunting requires 

 all the skill of the old-fashioned 

 gunner and much ingenuity besides, 

 for an animal can be shot much 

 farther away than photographed. 



