A SPORTING PARADISE 



water. Travelling under these circumstances 



A was exceedingly heavy work. 



The prospect after breakfast became worse, 



-and, after a fruitless attempt to walk half a 

 mile, we turned back to our camp, which 

 happened to be pitched upon some sloping rocks 

 that were rapidly being denuded of their white 

 covering. There was one consolation, and that 

 was an end to noisy wolves. It is only in rare 

 cases, when the surface snow is frozen hard, that 

 wolves, driven mad with hunger, will attack men. 

 When the crust weakens, all heavy animals, like the 

 moose, caribou, and Virginian deer, become easy 

 prey, their heavy weight rendering swift flight im- 

 possible. After a few rushes and plunges they fall 

 exhausted and are devoured. It is at this season 

 that a hunter on snow-shoes can overtake deer. 

 Before the Game Laws were passed limiting the 

 number to be killed by each man to three, 

 hundreds were slain by a single person, and the 

 game would soon have been exterminated. These 

 restrictions refer to hunters ; the Government 

 does not object to the settler securing whatever 

 game he can to supply his needs in respect of 

 food. Slaying for profit is forbidden. 



We occupied some time devising rough snow- 



