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This is the moral: From Maine to Montana; from the Adirondacks to Alaska; from the Yosemite to the Yellowstone, the trout-hog, the deer-wolf, the netter, the skin-hunter, each and all have it their own way; and the law is a farce only to be enforced where the game has vanished forever. Perhaps the man-child is born who will live to write the moral of all this when it is too late.
The camp of the skin-hunter was then the same in appearance as when I saw him and his partner Bob Stewart simplicity itself; a long spruce pole was lashed at either end to two spruce firs; against this, leaning at an angle of about 45 degrees, were sixty or seventy straight poles laid close together, and upon these were arranged spruce boughs to form a thatch.
DESTRUCTION OF ANIMALS FOR FUR. In the far North, only the interior of Kamchatka seems to be safe from the iron heel of the skin-hunter. A glance at the list of furs sold in London last year reveals one or two things that are disquieting. The total catch of furs for the year 1911 is enormous, considering the great scarcity of wild life on two continents.
I now watched with admiration the wonderful dexterity with which Bob, as a professional skin-hunter, divested this buck of its hide. With very little delay, the hide was neatly folded up, and secured to the Mexican saddle by the long leathern thongs, which form portions of that excellent invention.
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