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it's better for the country that we didn't split in 

 two?" 



"I'm a Southerner," the pot-hunter answered, 

 ''an' I ain't never been too friendly to the North. 

 But I reckon we're all together for the United 

 States now." 



''Good," said his guest, "I thought you'd feel 

 that way. Now, when you come right down to 

 hard tacks, don 't you think we 're all ready to stand 

 by the union because we feel that every American 

 ought to be under the same laws and be given the 

 same chance 1 ' ' 



"That's the way it ought to be," agreed Bull 

 Adam, "even if it ain't." 



"About the youngsters, now. Oughtn't they to 

 have as good a chance as we've had?" 



"Better, if we can fix it," came the reply. 



"Then that," said the official, leaning forward 

 in his chair, "is what I'm here for, and what the 

 game laws are here for. They're to give every 

 man in the United States an equal chance to hunt 

 or shoot or fish, and to provide that his children 

 and his children's children shall have the same 

 chance. ' ' 



"How do yo' make that out I" growled Bull 

 Adam. "All I can see in those cross-eyed, stone- 



