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Loaded firearms." made one feel it safe to approach. In the middle of the room was a table. On the table was a flagon of rum, a turkish tobacco pouch, The voyages of Captain Cook, stories of adventure, treatises on falconry, descriptions of big-game hunts etc... and finally seated at the table was the man himself.
Do you know, Mr. Oscard, you are quite a celebrity? I heard you called the 'big-game man' the other day, also the 'travelling fellow." The specimen smiled happily under this delicate handling. "It is not," he said modestly, "a very lofty fame. Anybody could let off a rifle." "I am afraid I could not," replied Millicent, with a pretty little shudder of horror, "if anything growled." "Mr.
Therefore, since I could obtain but little definite information as to just where to go for the best shooting, I determined to make the primary object of my journey to locate the big-game districts of southern and western Alaska. My first two months were spent in the country adjacent to Fort Wrangell.
She mentions the fact in this letter, and says she was so afraid I'd hurt myself with that knife, by accident, that she rolled it up in this new flannel shirt, which I've never thought to put on as yet, and thrust it down at the bottom of my clothes bag. I never thought to pull it out; and now that the big-game hunt is over I get my trusty blade." "Tell me about that, will you!
Just before his death at the front, Lord Roberts called upon all racing-men, yachtsmen, and big-game shots to send him, for the use of the officers in the field, their field-glasses. The response was amazingly generous. Other people gave their pens.
About her, as Bream Mortimer had said, there was something dynamic. The daughter of an eminent explorer and big-game hunter, she had frequently accompanied her father on his expeditions. An out-doors girl. "Who is that man at the piano?" she whispered. "Do you know him?" "As a matter of fact, I do," said Billie. "His name is Hignett. Why?" "I met him on the Subway not long ago.
Except in the few localities above-mentioned, I regard the big-game situation in the United States and southern Canada as particularly desperate.
The above showing of the pitifully small numbers of the specimens that constitute the remnant of the big-game of the Cape suggest just one thing: a universal close season throughout Cape Colony, and no hunting whatever for ten years. And yet, what do we see?
In tracing their movements I kept a sort of big-game Bertillon record; only instead of taking finger-prints, as is done with criminals, I measured footprints sketching them in my notebook, noting any slight peculiarity that would distinguish one track from another, and thus made positive identification possible.
Meanwhile, the work was well enough. He found it even more amusing than making love and a vast deal more exciting than big-game hunting. "Yes," he repeated anon, "There may be reasons, but it is a little too late to remember them. I am sending over to the Bureau now. If the Chief is there, he will be able to help me. Of course, you will see or hear from this girl again.
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