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more to our people. With widening knowledge, 

 they wish to see, to examine, and know. The man 

 who, knowing this, selfishly makes away with such 

 living documents, is a criminal, and a coward to 

 boot; for the consequences of his ill-deeds are 

 brought home most to those who strive to prevent 

 them. I cannot bespatter my page with the blood of 

 our larger native mammals also, many of which are 

 hunted out from their hidden retreats and destroyed 

 in such increasing numbers as to point to their 

 inevitable extirpation. But to those who, in the 

 self-satisfied ignorance and selfishness of their kind, 

 presume to slaughter what is ours, not theirs, a 

 nation's, not a clique's, we raise our warning 

 "Trespassers will be Prosecuted" a warning from 

 those who make, and, if need be, unmake law. 



