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For Cyrus has a millionnaire father in the Back Bay of Boston , who is disposed to indulge his whims . The one point of variance is this : while all guides admire young Garst as a crack shot with a rifle , he frequently dumfounds them by letting slip stunning chances at game , big and little . They call him `` a queer specimen sportsman , '' -- understanding little his love for the wild offspring of the woods , -- because he never uses his gun save when the bareness of his larder or the peril of his own life or his chum 's demands it . Nevertheless , feeling the need of fresh meat , the naturalist was for the moment hotly exasperated because his English comrade , Neal Farrar , missed even a poor chance at a buck during the midnight excursion on Squaw Pond . His friends are proud of stating that up to the present Cyrus had proceeded well in his friendly acquaintance with wild creatures , his desire being to study their habits when alive rather than to pore over their anatomy when dead . And he has always reaped a plentiful harvest of fun during his trips , declaring that he has `` the pull over fellows who go into the woods for killing , '' seeing that he can thoroughly enjoy the escape of a game animal if he can only catch a sight of it , and perceive how its pluck or cunning enables it to baffle pursuing man . There are those who call Cyrus a sportsman of the best type .