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The Adirondack Deer Law 



for re-election to the Legislature. The entire 

 country was stirred by the financial questions 

 at issue, and there was an uninterrupted series 

 of public meetings in central New York, as 

 elsewhere, at which these questions were dis- 

 cussed. During the six weeks preceding the 

 election I spoke almost every evening, but I 

 was exceedingly desirous of making a visit to 

 the woods, for the purpose of finding out the 

 sentiment of the guides and hotel-keepers re- 

 garding jacking and hounding, and incident- 

 ally of doing a little still-hunting. Arranging 

 so that there were no engagements to speak 

 from one Saturday until the following Thurs- 

 day, and leaving home on Saturday, I found 

 myself Sunday morning in the woods. A long 

 tramp that day proved conclusively that the 

 law which prohibited hunting on Sunday was 

 openly and persistently violated. I came 

 across parties who were watching on runways 

 for the deer that might be driven in by their 

 hounds, and was nearly fired at by one eager 

 sportsman, who was ready to shoot at any 

 object he saw moving through the under- 

 growth. Monday morning I made an early 

 start, and spent the day in the woods search- 

 ing for game. 



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