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V.'IIT'UK Till-: SPORTSMAN LoVKS TO IJXCJER. 



1)0 to the poor marksman wlio undertakes to stop a moose 

 under such conditions. Just as lie .^ot opposite us we 

 opened fire, and down w(^nt eh^ven liundred pounds of 

 moose meat. Xo finer liead of liorns ever left the Tine Tree 

 State.'' 



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Uraiu-h. 



There w(Te sevei-al ]>ar1ies cami^iii^- near us at Abol 

 stream, among them a lawyer, with his family, from Bos- 

 ton. The (juestion arose reuardiiiii- shootinu' deer out of 

 season. It seemed to be the univei-sal o]>iiiion that ihc in- 

 tent of the law was solely to prevent the wanton destnn-- 

 tion of p,ame, not that one should depriA'e himscdf of fresh 

 meat, killed for his own imnuMliatc use. It is Ihc general 

 o])inion amonu' lawv<'rs that if a case was carried to the 



