Summer Meeting- 117 



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means, 'Don't get lost, Mandy,' who is on the other side of the fence 

 with her young, just out of their nest and with part of the shell still 

 clinging to them." — Chicago Tribune. 



The Ruralist heartily endorses the above proposition except the net- 

 ting and especially is it so now of Missouri when the drouth last year 

 prevented seeds from maturing and the cold hard winter and wet spring 

 of this year killed the birds and ruined the eggs, thus reducing the num- 

 ber until there is hardly "seed" left for this year's crop of Bob Whites. 



There should be a law passed to prevent killing quail for five years, 

 and he who is found hunting quail this year should be pitied for lack of 

 good judgment, or common sense, to use a more forcible term. Let them 

 alone until they multiply. There is no finer sport than a quail hunt, 

 provided you find birds ; but in Missouri, alas, there will soon be no 

 birds to hunt. — The Ruralist, Sedalia, Mo. 



