ioo A SPORTING PARADISE 



Europe, where the brown bear is generally ex- 

 terminated before the wolf." 



The weapons used for bears are rifles, shot- 

 guns, and occasionally revolvers. I would re- 

 commend sportsmen to take bothj guns and dogs 

 with them to Canada. The guns for sale in 

 Canada, and in the States too, are of the cheap 

 Birmingham pattern, that may be seen in the 

 windows of hardware shops. There is such a wide 

 difference of opinion among gunners as to make, 

 bore, and weight of guns, that I should hesitate 

 to recommend any particular pattern. Get your 

 guns from a firm with a reputation. There are 

 about a dozen in England and one in Ireland 

 to choose from. You will have to pay extra 

 for the name, but the article will last a lifetime. 

 The guns of Messrs. Rigby, of Dublin, are as 

 near perfection as possible. 



Mr. Roosevelt writes : 



" At one time I possessed a very expensive 

 double-barrelled 500 Express, by one of the 

 crack English makers : but I never liked the gun, 

 and could not do as well with it as with my 

 repeater, which cost barely a sixth as much. So 

 one day I handed it to a Scotch friend, who was 

 manifestly ill at ease with a Winchester exactly 



