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people interested in game protection in 
Quebec, had sent representatives into On- 
tario to inquire into the working of the 
laws in the latter province. Evidently the 
Quebec sportsmen had been led to believe 
that in Ontario, the fish and game laws were 
properly enforced, and they wished to pick 
up a few wrinkles, with a view to improv- 
ing the conditions in their own country. 
The result of their visit has not trans- 
pired, but no doubt they went away greatly 
edified, and perhaps, wishing they could 
enforce the law with such ease and with 
like results in Quebec. It is devoutly to be 
hoped the fish and game of Quebec are 
better protected than they are in Ontario, 
or they are in sad case indeed. In Ontario, 
there is open disregard of the law, both as 
to the taking of fish and game and the 
slaughter of prohibited fur-bearing animals. 
Living in the midst of it all, I know 
whereof I write. On Thirty Island Lake, 
near Denbigh, one man killed 33 deer last 
season, most of them in the water before 
hounds. Nearly every party of hunters who 
came into this section of the country, 
brought hounds, and, of course, killed all 
their deer in the water. They could not kill 
a single one otherwise. 
The great majority of those who come 
in, are men who know nothing of the woods, 
and would get lost if they went 4 of a mile 
from camp. They have to let their dogs do 
the hunting, while they sit in a boat with a 
shot gun and a rifle, one on each side of 
them. The panting deer at last is brought 
to the lake—and then—mercifully done to 
death with a single shot? No, having had 
both barrels of the shot gun and the maga- 
zine of the rifle emptied at him, the noble 
animal is often battered to death with an 
oar. Buck, fawn, or doe, all are game to 
these gallant sportsmen. 
Many of the settlers, too, are just as bad. 
There is hardly a lake producing fish with- 
out its quota of nets—these bringing a 
steady revenue into the pockets of the own- 
_ ers, who sell the fish in the nearest towns. 
There is scarcely a store keeper or peddler 
in this country but does a constant trade in 
contraband fur. 
As for the deer, they are killed all the 
year round. Mr. Tinsley says 6,000 people 
took out licenses to kill deer in 1898, and 
that he thinks they would average a deer 
apiece. If he had put the average at 6, he 
would be nearer the mark. And how about 
those who hunted without license or per- 
mits? Of those who hunted in this section, 
about 25 per cent. (of the settlers) took out 
permits. 
Dogs were running 2 months before the 
hunting season, and for a month afterward. 
The warden, or temporary deputy warden, 
was himself fined for trying to kill deer in 
the water, and is known to have black- 
mailed a party whom he caught violating 
the law. He afterward informed on them! 
As far as laws are concerned, the moral 
sense of the community is rotten. It is most 
immoral to enact laws which are not en- 
forced. Such a course of action only 
teaches men to become thieves and liars. 
The system of private information which 
obtains does not tend to improve matters, 
a man informs on his neighbor because he 
has a spite against him, or because he wants 
half the fine. The informers are generally 
the biggest poachers themselves, and per- 
jure themselves with the greatest appear- 
ance of innocence. 
Mr. Tinsley, to the contrary, notwith- 
standing—deer are becoming scarcer every 
year—and no wonder. The settler is under 
the impression that the laws are made sim- 
ply in the interest of the city sportsmen, and 
his motto is, “‘ Let us get our share while 
we can,” and one can hardly blame him. 
The season is limited, generally, to the 
first fortnight in November; the parties 
from the front come in, in good time, and 
fill the woods with dogs the whole 14 days. 
What chance has the genuine sportsman 
to get a shot, while the deer are rushed 
from one hiding place to another? The 
deer are‘on the qui vive for a good many 
days after the dogs have left. 
The settlers say: 
“Very well, if this is the game, we’l! get 
dogs too,” and they do so. 
The hunting season should be extended to 
a month, and dogs be allowed to run in the 
first 10 days of that month only. If the set- 
tlers all begin to keep hounds, there can be 
but extermination. They will begin run- 
ning them in September, as they always do, 
and will keep it up till the lakes freeze up. 
If once the settlers took an interest in 
preserving the fish and deer, laws would be 
unnecessary, and one might add—if they 
are exasperated by witless legislation pro- 
tective laws will be unnecessary. There 
will be no game to protect. 
EoS.< Loronto. Outre 

MOOSE MEAT. 
Where has Sam Fullerton been all winter? It is re- 
ported on good authority that most of the Jumber camps 
in and around Red lake have beén supplied with an 
abundance of moose meat all winter. But then it was 
convenient for Sam not to know anything about it. Sam 
is a watchful dog. a wonderful detective of violators of 
the game laws, with a remarkable faculty of looking for 
contraband goods in large quantities where they are not. 
Funny how Sam failed to learn that moose meat was 
furnished to lumber camps for 2 cents per pound.— 
Roseau County Times. 

GAME HOG HARRISON. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
Editor RECREATION: In October last I 
promised to write vou after my return from 
the woods, I have been very busy until now. 
October 26th I started for Itasca county, 
this state,. with a friend. Left Deer river 
on the 27th. Thence we walked 60 miles to 

