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THE HoK-BUR. 



To extirpate the birds of prey and four-footed vermin, 

 which swarm everywhere in the Peninsula, would he an 

 impossibility, but materially to diminish their numbers 

 might be feasible enough, were the inhabitants seriously 

 to put their shoulder to the wheel. Instead of so doing, 

 however, they generally look on with the most perfect 

 unconcern, let the destruction of game be ever so great. 

 It is true that within the last few years they have begun 

 to bestir themselves, both as to the preservation of game 

 and the destruction of vermin; and if the new (iume 

 Laws be properly enforced -- for hitherto they have 

 been all but a dead letter a material improvement will, 

 no doubt, take place. 



mi: ll"K iiri:. 



The trap most commonly used for the capture of 

 Uawks, etc., is called the lli.k-l'.nr, tuul to my personal 



