CONCLUSION 



entrails, it is "splendid sport." To shoot 

 a deer in the camp is pleasant, but no 

 sportsman will deny that it is far more 

 delightful to hunt it down for a long 

 time with dogs first! What wonder is 

 it that when human beings find their 

 pleasure thus, they do not hesitate to 

 sacrifice the lives, and, what is worse, the 

 souls of helpless children in mills, and 

 mines, and factories? 



At Felsengarten no living thing is 

 harmed save as a last resort, when there 

 is no other way of preventing it from doing 

 harm. And so the wild creatures are so 

 fearless and friendly that they come almost 

 to our hands. Indeed, it has happened to 

 me several times that they have come, liter- 

 ally, to mine, and taken food from it. 



When I see that "winged jewel," the 

 ruby-throated humming-bird, poise appar- 

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