APPENDIX A 



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While the more costly furs are in ever-increasing demand not- 

 withstanding their ever-increasing price — for the mere fact that they 

 are enormously expensive creates an inextinguishable desire for them 

 on the part of certain people — there has arisen an increasing demand 

 for cheaper furs also. Scarcely any animal that has a furry coat is 

 now safe to walk abroad, for some one seizes and slays it, although the 



