Trail and Camp-Fire 



As set forth in its Constitution, one of the 

 objects of the Boone and Crockett Club is 

 "To work for the preservation of the large 

 game of this country, and, so far as possible, 

 to further legislation for that purpose." It is 

 needless to say that during all this time the 

 members of the club, and other sportsmen 

 throughout the State, were earnestly interested 

 in the question thus presented to the Legisla- 

 ture. Now and then some well-known woods- 

 man would urge the importance of shortening 

 the season, leaving the methods of killing un- 

 changed, but almost invariably it would be 

 found that he never hunted with a jack-light. 

 or killed a deer when swimming. A few good 

 sportsmen who used dogs to drive their deer 

 to runways, but who never shot them in deep 

 water, opposed the prohibition of hounding, 

 and, in order to meet the case of those who 

 thus hunted with hounds, it was suggested 

 that a law be passed prohibiting the killing of 

 deer in deep water. The impossibility of en- 

 forcing such a law was speedily recognized by 

 all, and its advocates soon abandoned it. 



It is, I think, no exaggeration to say that 

 the best sportsmen in the State, with here 



and there an exception, favored the absolute 



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