24 GAME PEESERVERS AND BIRD TRESERYERS. 



they protect are counted by himdreds, and their 

 numbers by tens of thousands. 



They simply see that the very recommenda- 

 tion of this Committee is carried out. This 

 wild beast, which with some skill and cunning 

 they have at last trapped, was breaking the law ; 

 •and that wild bhd which they have traced to 

 her mountain home, and watched for weeks, 

 was offending against it every day. In killing 

 these creatures they have no more done a cruel 

 or barbarous action than their ancestors did 

 when they killed wolves. 



