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license fees ? The rich non-resident, not the peo- 

 ple who live in the state. Who is most handi- 

 capped by the bag limit? The sportsman who 

 can't send his kill out of this state. How many 

 deer can an outsider get in this state 1 Two in a 

 season. And this is one of the easiest states in the 

 union. 



**You say game laws are made in favor of the 

 sportsman. That's true. They are — and why? 

 Because a sportsman shoots for sport, not for kill- 

 ing, because it is his rule to give the wild creature 

 as much chance as possible, so as to increase the 

 interest and the skill ; because he is willing to leave 

 some of the birds for other people. Does a sports- 

 man shoot a bird on its nest or fire a battery-gun 

 into a flock of sitting birds, killing and wounding 

 indiscriminately? Who does that. Bull Adam, the 

 sportsman or the pot-hunter?" 



But Bull Adam sat silent. 



**The game laws back up the sportsman. 

 Agreed. But there's no finer compliment in the 

 world than to call a man *a true sportsman.' 

 Uncle Sam has just two ideas in this game law 

 matter. One is to save the birds which are threat- 

 ened with extinction because of their market value 

 for food or feathers, and the other is to preserve 



