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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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t. washis wont to arrange his victims inline, at the end of a days shooting, andtaking his place beside them, rifle heldjauntily in hand or resting against the few and scattered; the elk is found only dead body of a noble buck, head thrown in far secluded districts; even the birdshave disappeared, and in some of ourStates it would be difficult now to finda single grouse. The march of civilization and indis-criminate killing are together responsi-ble for these conditions. Unfortunately, back, chest protruding, have himself pho-tographed for the benefit of admiringfriends. He seemed to say to the world: Heream I! it ! Look at me! Behold thegreat and noble hunter! All of us past forty, and many much too many hunters of that other gen- younger, can remember this picture; anderation could shoot well; and if they we can remember, too, the feeling ofpossessed a conscience they did not take loathing and resentment that rose within Copyright, 1909, by Outing Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
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EIGHT THOUSAND FEET ABOVE SEA-LEVEL AMONG THE DENSE FORESTS OF SIERRA MADRES RANGE. THE us as we gazed upon it. We lookeddown upon the fellow as a man ofblood—a murderous villain—who killedfor the sake of killing, to satisfy brutalinstincts; and we resented his whole-sale slaughter because we felt that hewas robbing us and our children of aheritage—the right to pursue the God-given sport of the chase as sportsmenshould, temperately and within reason. Happily a revulsion of feeling cameat length, when sportsmen awoke to thefact that unless some steps were takenpromptly to protect the game, therewould be none to protect. With thisobject in view, associations were organ-ized, notable among them the Camp-Fire Club of America. Tardy leg-islatures were prevailed upon to passrestrictive hunting laws. Sportsmensjournals censured and derided the wan-ton game-killer and dubbed him gamehog, until finally it is safe to say thatas a species he is almost as extinct asthe game he destroyed. Bu

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