THE GREAT MASSACRE in 



he did not have the right to disobey the law, but if 

 he'd gone ahead and shot such birds as he ab- 

 solutely needed for food, he 'd never have got into 

 any trouble with the department. 



<<The game laws are for every man. They're 

 for you, Bull Adam, just as much as for the mil- 

 lionaires in the Currituck club-houses, but they're 

 for them just as much as for you. They're Uncle 

 Sam's way of giving a square deal to the birds and 

 a square deal to the people, as well as a square 

 deal to the generations to follow us. We've no 

 more right to steal from our neighbors in the 

 future than from our neighbors in the present. 



*'In every neighborhood there's one man, who, 

 because of the bigness or the dominance of his 

 character, sets the pace. If you go on defying the 

 law, weaker folks will follow you and you'll make 

 it ten times harder for us, for the district, and for 

 the folks that '11 follow after we 're dead and gone. 

 I can get any amount of little men to join me in a 

 move to play square with the birds, but I don't 

 want little men for leaders, I want big ones. 

 Where do you stand. Bull Adam, with the Italian 

 bird-torturers and the negro robin-hunters or with 

 the United States?" 



He stopped, and in the silence that ensued, 



