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done so by this law. The Governor was fully 

 advised of the purpose and effect of the law, 

 but the powerful societies of the market men 

 were promoting it and the bill was approved. 

 In a few years the conspicuous prairie fowl 

 will exist only in the naturalists' books. 



In olden times laws upon these subjects pro- 

 tected only animals which lent pleasure to the 

 chase, and also certain royal fish which were 

 deemed to belong to the king. These old 

 laws were selfish and severe, and were en- 

 forced with the cruelty of the age. A gentler 

 spirit has since dawned upon the world, and 

 now most game laws shelter as well the song 

 bird as the wild boar and the stag. The true 

 hunter derives more pleasure in watching the 

 natural life around him than in killing the 

 game that he meets. His heart feels the poet- 

 ry of nature in the "wren light rustling among 

 the leaves and twigs," and in the train of 

 ducks as, 



Darkly seen against the crimson sky, 

 Their figure floats along. 



He stops to enjoy the guttural syllables where 

 "Robert of Lincoln is telling his name" in the 

 summer meadow. At early dawn and even- 



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