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due's back. He meclianically claspeci his arms about her 

 body. Away the perplexed deer flew through the forest, 

 bearing Major Darling, feet first, along with her. He held on, 

 and after the deer had run with him half a mile or more, he 

 managed to catch lier by one hind leg and trip her up. She 

 fell heavily to the ground, and before she could regain her feet 

 the Major cut her throat." 



■■THIXCS Aitl': DIFFERENT NOW." 



A.s ii\ ili/aliiiii ;ul\;iiues and iiupi'oved liieanus bc- 

 coiiic vvrvv vi-ai flu apcr and more uuiiiei'ous, the wild 

 bii-d.s and Icui- luoU-d (iiiuloiuesticated) animals will 

 d^'el•eas(^ Tliis is not alone tine of Pennsylvania, for 

 we see in other rejiion.s, where proper laws are iiot en- 

 aett^d and enforced for the jnioteetion of game (birds, 

 mammals and fish), these ereatnres, intei'estiu<ij and 

 often valuable from cn'mmeieial and other economic 

 standpoiuts, ai'i' ferf(ineutly exterminated. 



MANY Yl-.T RICMAIX. 



Ingenuity has enalihd man to make the most deadly 

 and rapid-firiuy arms, wliiih, in the hands of profes- 

 sional meat or skin Imnlers, have, within the last fif- 

 teen years, caused much depletion of the large four- 

 footed game, and also feathered kinds, as well as the 

 bright ly-dre&sed song and insect-eating birds, whicli, 

 fashion has decreed that frail, fastidious woman — 

 lovely though she is, aiul. w ithoiit her, terrestrial exis- 

 tence would not be worth a farthing — shall decorate 

 her pretty head. 



FIFTY SI'KCIKS OF MAMMALS. 



Notwithstanding I lie slaughter in the last (]narter 

 of a century of wild animals, dressed either in warm 

 coats of fur or attrartivc feather garbs, one may yet. 

 with jiroiiei- insduiclions aiui iuvestigatiou.s, find many 



