any power except their own which would close from hunting to their citizens considerable portions of the forest reserves within the confines of the State.  Their claim is that by an abuse of such delegated power, a President of the United States might, if so inclined, shut out the citizens from hunting at all in the forest reserves of their own State.  This argument is not an easy one to wave aside.  Should, however, the size of the individual refuges be limited to four townships each, and the minimum distance between such refuges be defined, one grave objection to these refuges would be overcome, and the citizens of the various States would cooperate with Federal authority to accomplish that which the sentiment at home in many instances is not at present sufficiently enlightened to demand, and which by reason of party differences the State legislatures are powerless to effect.

[Illustration:  TEMISKAMING MOOSE.]

Having elaborated in one’s mind the idea that a Game Refuge, in order to be a success, should be about ten or twelve miles square, the question arises, how near are these to be placed to one another?  If they are established at the beginning, not less than twenty or twenty-five miles from each other, it seems to me that the exigencies of the situation would be met.  It is not our purpose, in creating them, seriously to interfere with the privileges of hunters adjoining the forests where they are established.  On the contrary, all that is wished is to preserve the present number of the deer, or to allow them slightly to increase.  The system of game refuges of the size indicated, would, I believe, accomplish this end.  In all probability, at the beginning of the open season, the deer would be distributed with a considerable degree of uniformity throughout the reserve, outside of the game refuges as well as within.  They would go, of course, where the food and conditions suited them.  As the hunting season opened, and the game, in a double sense, become more lively, the deer would naturally seek shelter where they could find it.  Since this, with them, would be a question literally of vital interest, their education would progress rapidly, particularly that of the wary old bucks, experienced in danger which they had survived in the past simply because their bump of caution was well developed, these would soon realize that they were safe within the bounds of a certain tract—­that there the sound of the rifle was never heard, that there far less frequently they ran across the hateful scent of their enemies, and for some mysterious reason were left to their own devices.  When once this idea has found firm lodgment in the head of an astute deer, the very first thing that he will do will be to get into an asylum of this sort, and to stay there; if he has any business to transact beyond its boundaries, exactly as an Indian would do in similar circumstances, he will delegate the same to a young buck who is on his promotion, and has his reputation to make, and