134 G.OIE PRESERVERS AND BIRD PRESERVERS. 



hate game birds, and kill them when I can get 

 near them in the autumn myself, and welcome 

 on my land any creatures which will tear them 

 to pieces all the rest of the year, or, if they 

 can only swallow their eggs and newly-hatched 

 young, like the raven, I am delighted to see 

 them.' 



Yet, thanks to an entirely different poHcy 

 having been adopted probably for the last 

 twenty years on the property he shoots over, 

 and to his neighbours following a different 

 pohcy, this gentleman has still a good deal of 

 game on his ground, in the same way that Mr. 

 Waterton, while doing his best to encourage 

 all the creatures which destroy that triumph 

 of acclimatisation, the pheasant, could always, 

 thanks to his neighbours, boast that he had 

 some in his park and on his table. 



When we take to preserving their enemies 

 we will certainly cease to shoot them ourselves, 

 and will carry a walking-stick instead of a 



