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utmost comfort through a naturahst's wonclcrhmd. All 

 civilized Governments are now realizing that it is 

 their duty here and there to preserve certain defined 

 districts, with the wild things thereon, the destruction 

 of which means the destruction of half the charm of 

 wild nature. The English Government has made a 

 large game reserve of much of the region on the way 

 to Nairobi, stretching far to the south, and one mile 

 to the north, of the track. The reserve swarms with 

 game ; it would be of little value except as a reserve ; 

 and the attraction it now offers to travellers renders it 

 an asset of real consecjuence to the whole colony. 

 The wise people of Maine, in our own country, have 

 discovered that intelligent game preservation, carried 

 out in good faith, and in a spirit of common sense as 

 far removed from nuishy sentimentality as from 

 brutality, results in adding one more to the State's 

 natural resources of value ; and in consequence there 

 are more moose and deer in j\Iaine to-day than there 

 were forty years ago. There is a better chance for every 

 man in Maine, rich or poor, provided that he is not a 

 game butcher, to enjoy his share of good hunting ; and 

 the number of sportsmen and tourists attracted to the 

 State adds verj'^ appreciably to the means of livelihood 

 of the citizen. Game reserves should not be established 

 where they are detrimental to the interests of large 

 bodies of settlers, nor yet should they be nominally 

 established in regions so remote that the only men really 

 interfered with are those who respect the law, while a 

 premium is thereby put on the activity of the un- 

 scrupulous persons who are eager to break it. Similarly, 

 game laws should be drawn primarily in the interest of 

 the whole people, keeping steadily in mind certain facts 

 that ought to be self-evident to everyone above the 



