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I sliould have known better. Even if there were no 

 law against the taking of small trout I ought to have 

 known better, for I am old enough and have fished 

 enough to know that if all the little fellows are taken 

 out there will never be any big ones. The game laws 

 are made for the poor more than for the rich, for the 

 rich can go to Canada or the Adirondacks and get all 

 the fishing and hunting they want. But the poor have 

 to sta}^ at home, and these men," pointing to the 

 warden, " are trying to preserve some fishing for the 

 poor man. It serves me just right, and I know 3^ou 

 are wrong. Come, warden, have a drink with me." In 

 another case a warden was called ujDon by a well-known 

 guide from Greenwood Lake, who said to him : " Mr. 

 Warden, I wish that j^ou would prosecute me. I have 

 been keeping a set-line in the water, and I don't want 

 3^ou to arrest me." " Had you not better wait until I 

 secure the evidence?" inquired the warden. "Oh, 

 no," was the reply; "I have done wrong and I am 

 willing to pa}^ for it ; besides that, j^ou will get the 

 evidence fast enough, and then I'll have the bother of 

 going through this when, perhaps, I have less time 

 than I have now. Besides that, I don't want to have 

 those fellows up there say that I have been arrested, 

 and so I want to square up now." The warden did 

 not exactly like the turn affairs had taken, but the 

 guide insisted, and so the warden accepted the amount 

 of the fine and costs. On the following morning he 

 appeared before the Justice of the Peace and as warden 

 complained that a certain guide had violated the law; 

 as attorney for the accused he entered a plea of guilty 

 and paid the penalty stipulated by law. 



I have said, gentlemen, that our wardens have done 

 some missionary work, and I think you will agree with 

 me as to the quality of this work when 3-011 see that it 

 made a defender of the laws out of a man who was 

 pa3^ing sixty dollars, and that it touched the conscience 



