Hunting in Many Lands 



of certain lakes or rivers in a different manner 

 or season from other parts. In some of the 

 acts words are misspelled ; in one it is enacted 

 that ''wild birds shall not be killed at any 

 time." Another act was passed defining the 

 word "angling," as used in the general statute, 

 thus — "taking fish with hook and line and by 

 rod held in hands," leaving the troller or the 

 happy schoolboy, that drops his hand-line from 

 the bridge, exposed to the dire penalties of the 

 law. While writing in this year of grace, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-five, the Legisla- 

 ture has passed a law permitting the sale of 

 game at any time in the year, providing it is 

 shown to have been killed 300 miles from the 

 State. 



This most unreasonable law was procured 

 largely through the influence of the Chicago 

 market men. The States lying west of Chi- 

 cago have been endeavoring to protect their 

 game. Salutary laws have been passed pro- 

 hibiting the killing and freezing of game, and 

 the transportation of it outside of those terri- 

 tories. The markets of Chicago and the other 

 great cities of the West being closed to the 

 public sale of game, the dealers sought to open 

 the markets of New York, and they have thus 



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