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leave their business and put on old clothes 

 and simply tramp in the woods. So the gun 

 offers the excuse. It really often does not 

 matter whether much game is found. 



THE NEW SPORTSMAN 



Indeed our finer-fibred sportsmen have 

 learned voluntarily to limit the size of their 

 game-bags. Standing and shooting tame 

 pheasants by the hundred would hardly be 

 called sport in America, as it is in England 

 and Germany. Better still, there has come 

 over a small and select body of our sports- 

 men a new spirit. The game is nearly gone, 

 say they ; why shoot the rest ? Why not 

 leave these lingering remnants to tell us 

 what our woods once were? If you shoot 

 the deer with a gun, he is only that much 

 meat, that will last at best but for a short 

 time, and a head which though it may bear 

 witness to your prowess is at the same time 

 equal evidence of your butchery. But a 

 deer shot with a camera remains to enjoy 

 life. Indeed to take a successful snap-shot 

 of an animal requires a far higher degree of 



