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Title: Guns and gunning
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, Bellmore H Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941
Subjects: Firearms Hunting
Publisher: Chicopee Falls, Mass. J. Stevens arms & tool co
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The Wilderness Hunter CHAPTER VII The Wilderness THE trail is the one human artery that beatsin the wilderness.As the life of a man is in the wilderness,so is the trail. All the human sufferings, hardships,and dangers, sought and mastered by the advanceguard of civilization—the trail builders—are reflectedin every tortuous curve of the dim path. As thehunter with the call of the wilderness in his ear,pushes beyond civilization into the wild land, andbeyond again into the unknown, the trail writes downin living letters the story of his joys and sorrows. Take twenty experienced frontiersmen, and sendthem one at a time through an untrammelled wilder-ness to a given point, and on comparing the trails, wewould find that the majority had followed practicallythe same route. This route is always theline of least resistance, and in following it wetake the wild animals as teachers. Whenbig game animals first enter a country—andthey are always changing their feeding-grounds—they do not k

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