tains and desert; in acquired knowledge of the habits of
animals; in the strenuous pursuit of a wary and dangerous quarry; in the
instinct for a well-devised approach to a fair shooting distance; and in
the patient retrieve of a wounded animal."

[Footnote Q: This organization contains in its list of members the most
distinguished names in the modern annals of British sport and
exploration. Its honorary membership, of eight persons, contains the
names of three Americans: Theodore Roosevelt, Madison Grant and W.T.
Hornaday; and of this fact at least one person is extremely proud!]

In 1908 the Camp-Fire Club of America formally adopted, as its code of
ethics, the "Sportsman's Platform" of fifteen articles that was prepared
by the writer and placed before the sportsmen of America, Great Britain
and her colonial dependencies in that year. In the book of the Club it
regularly appears as follows:

* * * * *

CODE OF ETHICS
OF THE
CAMP-FIRE CLUB OF AMERICA
_Proposed by Wm. T. Hornaday and adopted December 10, 1908_

1. The wild animal life of to-day is not ours, to do with as we
please. The original stock is given to us _in trust_, for the
benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an
accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

2. Judging from the rate at which the wild creatures of North
America are now being destroyed, fifty years hence there will be no
large game left in the United States nor in Canada, outside of
rigidly protected game preserves. It is therefore the duty of every
good citizen to promote the protection of forests and wild life and
the creation of game preserves, while a supply of game remains.
Every man who finds pleasure in hunting or fishing should be willing
to spend both time and money in active work for the protection of
forests, fish and game.

3. The sale of game is incompatible with the perpetual preservation
of a proper stock of game; therefore it should be prohibited by laws
and by public sentiment.

4. In the settled and civilized regions of North America there is no
real _necessity_ for the consumption of wild game as human food: nor
is there any good excuse for the sale of game for food purposes. The
maintenance of hired laborers on wild game should be prohibited
everywhere, under severe penalties.

5. An Indian has no more right to kill wild game, or to subsist upon
it all t