BLOODLESS SPORT 



supply the m'eat market. But when the 

 sportsman goes forth to exercise his skill, 

 allowing the hunted prey a chance for its life 

 and freedom, the sentimentalist, who is gen- 

 erally someone who never took pleasure in 

 that form of amusement, throws up his hands 

 and exclaims, "How brutal !" It is easy to 

 discriminate against a practice in which one 

 does not participate. Self-denial, when you 

 deny yourself nothing, is an easy and con- 

 venient morality. The brute creation is sac- 

 rificed for man's enjoyment, and it is useless 

 to offer capricious objections to a form of 

 sacrifice which pleases another and which 

 does not happen to appeal to one's own idea 

 of pleasure. 



There is a great deal of inconsistency dis- 

 played by many who deprecate hunting with 

 a rifle or shotgun, as the case may be. Cruelty 

 to animals seems to include birds and quad- 

 rupeds, but not fish. I have heard people 

 who are fond of angling expatiate upon the 

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