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dinner! Blaze away in season and out of season 

 at everything that flies. But, if you do, Bull 

 Adam, don't call yourself a decent American; 

 and, if you do, turn your father's portrait to the 

 wall to show that you 're unworthy to be the son of 

 a Confederate soldier!" 



Bull glared and his fists were clenched, but the 

 federal game law oflQcial feared no man. He 

 paused, and then went on more quietly. 



''You talked about game laws being made for 

 the rich. Bull Adam. You're tallying like a blind 

 man or a fool. They're a durn sight more ad- 

 vantageous for the poor. There's places in the 

 North Carolina marshes, as you know well, that 

 can't be reached either on foot or with a boat. 

 There, the duck are tolerably safe. But it would 

 be easy to fly over those marshes with an aero- 

 plane and pot everything at sight, wouldn't it? 

 So, in 1917, North Carolina passed a law for- 

 bidding the shooting of waterfowl from an aero- 

 plane over any waters of the state. Who does that 

 law hit. Bull Adam, the rich or the poor? 



''Game laws made for the rich? Don't you 

 think it ! The Biological Survey has drafted and 

 prepared most of those laws and you can bet 

 they're pretty fair all round. Who pays the big 



