248 BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA chap. 



He rose once more to thank me sarcastically for the 

 "dressing down" he had received, and I begged him not to 

 mention it. The look on his face, and that on the faces of 

 the audience in court, told the whole tale, and he must have 

 realised that for once he had " cut off a bigger lump than he 

 could chew." 



Needless to remark, the verdict was " Not guilty," and 

 I afterwards received the congratulations of nearly every 

 American in the house, who begged me not to consider this 

 as a typical instance of how English sportsmen were treated 

 in the States. I appreciated their kindness, but alas, it did 

 not help to repair the ruination of the latter part of my 

 shooting trip, as it was now too late to return to the moose 

 country. 



The afternoon was occupied in the hearing of the cases 

 against Glyn and Little. 



The former admitted having killed two sheep out of 

 season, and also one moose above the number allowed by his 

 own permit. In a very able speech for the defence, he 

 pleaded the need of meat in the one case and the rights of 

 travellers and explorers to kill it, and in the other case he 

 claimed that as Little had not got his second moose, he was 

 entitled to shoot one for him, and that even if he had broken 

 the law in the letter he had not done so in its spirit; as we 

 had come out with considerably less trophies than we were 

 entitled to under our combined permits. 



In this case the prosecutor, suffering from his recent 

 soreness, made a most bitter and violent attack upon the 

 defendant ; and so vindictive was it that one good-natured 

 miner said to me afterwards, " I guess that was a persecution, 

 and not a prosecution." 



In Glyn's case the Judge ruled that a sportsman could 



