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Sport and Life. 



may be described as a fair sporting chance for its life." Was ever 

 more mischievous nonsense written ? Does it not stand to reason 

 that the method which eliminates all chances of (i) a lingering 

 death from wounds, (2) that spares all females, (3) that prevents all 

 avoidable waste of life, (4) that kills in a merciful way only those 

 animals that are best suited for the uses to which their pelt is put 



How SEALS WERE KILLED IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



(From De Bry's Narrative of the English navigator 

 Cavendish's Expedition, 1586.) 



and that can best be spared in the economy of seal life, is a better 

 and more humane method than one which fails to regard any one 

 of these important considerations ? One might just as well argue 

 that, instead of putting our cattle to a speedy and painless death, we 

 should turn them loose in a deep lake and shoot them or wound 

 them from unsteady boats, letting those that are not killed instantly 



