Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CHAMOIS DESCENDING A MOUNTAIN. HUNTING CHAMOIS There have been many cases known where a kid has been wounded orshot dead and the mother chamois has refused to leave it. Swiss hotel keepers make a great fuss about the chamois till one w-ouldthink that great bands roamed around the neighborhood. As a matter of factone hotel we know of, had a poor, miserable looking little chamois locked upin the stable, which was shown to wondering tourists on the payment of a fee. The chamois praises have been sung all over Europe for many yearsand artists have drawn the animal in every possible way, and thereby givenit quite a reputation In the countries that have bought their freedom sodearly, it has always been a emblem,—and a good one too—of Liberty.
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There is a splendid member of the goat family found in our country,which might well be called the American chamois. On the islands off thePacific Coast good goat shooting can be obtained, but it is best where touristsare few in number and where the shooting is not advertised in the papers. On one occasion two hunters, young in years, but old in experience,

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