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protection of game, treats the public to such a spectacle 

 as that at Coney Island, neglects the matter with which 

 it should be concerned and devotes 20,000 pigeons 

 brought from their nesting ground to its wholesale 

 slaughter, its members can hardly look for any other 

 public sentiment than exactly that feeling which has 

 been aroused. An afternoon's shoot at a few pigeons, 

 and a ten days' shoot at unlimited numbers of helpless 

 birds — many of them squabs, unable to fly, and others 

 too exhausted to do so — are regarded by the public as 

 two very different things. 



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