. In pine-tree jungles : a handbook for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . Ah Ideal Woods Road. 123. Women in tHe Woods. By Mary Alden Hopkins. WHEN, a liundred years ago, our great-grandmothers fol-lowed their husbands into the Maine woods to find newhomes, they learned of necessity how to handle the clumsymusket and bring down the prowling wild-cats and l)ears. To-daytheir descendants, armed with light magazine rifles and clad in nattyhunting suits, go blithely into the woods in search of deer and many a camp one will find a party of women, or a group of school-girls w
. In pine-tree jungles : a handbook for sportsmen and campers in the great Maine woods . Ah Ideal Woods Road. 123. Women in tHe Woods. By Mary Alden Hopkins. WHEN, a liundred years ago, our great-grandmothers fol-lowed their husbands into the Maine woods to find newhomes, they learned of necessity how to handle the clumsymusket and bring down the prowling wild-cats and l)ears. To-daytheir descendants, armed with light magazine rifles and clad in nattyhunting suits, go blithely into the woods in search of deer and many a camp one will find a party of women, or a group of school-girls with their teacher, who tramp and climb and fish under the guar-dianship of trustworthy Indian guides. A woman who has once experienced the freedom of such a vacationnever willingly returns to the artificiality of a seaside hotel number who distribute venison of their own shooting amongfriends at home is increasing each year, and not a few have a lordlymoose to their credit. But if a woman does not care for hunting, sheexplores the wonderful lakes and streams in a canoe, or takes longtramps, from w
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