no "TRESPASSERS" 



be,' but never ' can be,' effectively prosecuted at law. 

 The Law has seldom shown more insight and, one 

 may add, prudence. Trespass with damage, how- 

 ever, is another matter ; and he who, when on 

 another man's property, cannot respect it as he would 

 claim to have his own respected, may take his 

 chance so far as we are concerned. 



Whilst on this question of trespass with damage, 

 let us consider it from the point of view of those who, 

 without being lords of manors, still are custodians of 

 a territory upon which very real trespass and damage 

 is committed by some who are. 



As I desire to forestall the ever ready retort as to 

 "sickly sentimentality," I will approach the matter 

 upon grounds which will be intelligible to all con- 

 cerned. It will probably be allowed that, as payers 

 of income tax and such other dues as a provident 

 Government sees fit for our good to demand from 

 us, we have discharged what it considers the first 

 duty of practical patriotism. In proportion to our 

 possessions we have contributed appreciably to put 

 the matter moderately toward the upkeep of the 

 British Empire; and having set out our wooden, or 

 as matters now stand, copper-sheathed walls, we are 

 free to discuss among ourselves what exactly it is 

 each of us desires to have defended from its enemies 

 within our own confines. 



Some of us like to think that we are possessed of 

 a native, and therefore a national, fauna, as real as, 

 but considerably more important than, our National 

 Debt. The latter we can pay off when so-minded ; 

 defects in the former not all the gold of Ophir will 

 make good. This native fauna we hold to be the 



