LET US GO AFIELD 



is, when one stops to think of it, an accurate and 

 studious cause for actual consternation. The speed 

 and the completeness of the disappearance of our 

 game has been something beyond belief. 



By no means phenomenal of themselves, none 

 the less the writer's observations have been carried 

 on for a quarter of a century in every state of the 

 West, in every state of the Northwest, Middle West 

 and the South; and he has seen the fly way of the 

 fowl from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the 

 mouth of the Mackenzie. Without the slightest 

 wish to be sensational or even striking, the definite 

 conclusion of one man who, for a good part of his 

 life, has been paid to know about this sort of thing, 

 is that we did not get our national law one minute 

 too soon, and cannot hang on to it too tightly. Not 

 all the best agencies we used before that, not all the 

 combined attempts of all the thinking people of this 

 country previous to the year 1913, availed to stop 

 the continual and accelerating disappearance of all 

 the game of all the states of the entire Union. And, 

 without knowing it, we were drawing heavily on 

 Canada all the time. You see what Canada is today 

 and what may be expected of her. It is little, and 

 will be less. 



Let us hope that the American people have 

 learned their lesson. And let us hope that they 



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