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of men who still delight in slaughtering 

 game, but who now exercise the utmost 

 care in keeping their tracks covered, lest 

 Recreation find them. It is amusing to 

 learn from the neighbors of some of these 

 game and fish butchers how carefully the 

 latter smuggle in their big bags and what 



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gets a copy of the photograph, sends it to 

 me, and in due time it appears in Recre- 

 ation, together with the names and ad- 

 dresses of the men who perpetrated the 

 butchery. Then these men either reform 

 or fall into the ranks of the skulkers and in 

 future, when they return from their 



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precautions they take to keep the neighbors 

 from hearing of them. There are still 

 some who have not learned the lesson of 

 the past few years, and who, when they 

 make a big killing, rush madly to a local 

 photographer, string up their game, stand up 

 beside it, and get photographed. Then comes 

 the inevitable. Some friend of the game 



slaughtering matches, they sneak up the 

 back alley after dark, tote their game into 

 the kitchen and make the members of the 

 household swear not to tell about it. 



Ernest T. Seton tells of a case of this 

 kind that came under his notice in New 

 Mexico. A party of game hogs went from 

 that State across the border into Texas, 



