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farm, and preserve the game inside the enclosure. It would 

 be necessary also, for the first few years at least, that some 

 responsible person should control the expenditure on the spot, 

 give general directions to the manager, and devote himself in 

 the calving-seasons to procuring as many species of game as 

 possible from various districts to be turned loose in the enclosure. 

 The estimated capital required for such undertaking would be 

 about £5000. 



[While heartily sympathising with this scheme, arid recommending it 

 to the consideration of the British South African Chartered Company, we 

 take the opportunity of anticipating adverse criticism as to the feasibility of 

 making and maintaining large enclosures for Big Game by showing what 

 has been done in this direction in America. The following account, from 

 our American contemporary 'Forest and Stream,' of a large " Game Park" 

 in New Hampshire, comprising some 28,000 acres, will be read with 

 interest by naturalists as well as sportsmen. — Ed.] 



THE CORBIN GAME PARK IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S.A. 

 By John R. Spears.* 



Some years ago a friend presented to Austin Corbin, the well- 

 known railroad man, a few young Deer. Mr. Corbin accepted 

 them, and having a great country seat that included many acres 

 of woods as well as cleared fields out on Long Island, he caused 

 a part of the woods to be suitably fenced, and turned the Deer 

 into the inclosure. Mr. Corbin, at that time, was neither a 

 sportsman nor a naturalist, in the sense in which these terms 

 are generally understood. He had no especial interest in wild 

 animals of any kind. Nevertheless, as a lad he had lived on 

 a farm in New Hampshire, among the foothills of the White 

 Mountains, and had trapped Woodchucks, and shot Partridges, 

 and chased Foxes, and the good healthy delights of those days 

 lingered in his memory. Small wonder then that the gentle pets 

 his friend had given to him won their way into his affections from 

 the moment they became his. It was a new pleasure— something 

 he had never known before — to go and watch their graceful 



From 'Forest and Stream.' 



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