190 GAME PKESERVERS AND BIRD PRESERVERS. 



We can only quote some of the arguments 

 advanced for and against him. Opinions seem 

 pretty evenly balanced. 



We believe he drives away other birds, 

 such as the chaffinch and yellowhammer. 

 Netting them in winter is quite a legitimate 

 way of destroying them, and if they are shot 

 from a trap next morning they will have a 

 chance to escape. A lad of sixteen who can 

 stop nine out of twelve at twenty yards' rise 

 will be able to handle a gun to some purpose 

 when he goes out to our colonies ; and all boys 

 cannot have game to practise at. 



Mr. Champion Eussell hates the sparrow. 

 < Their crops are full of barley and oats, except 

 when they can get wheat. Then they attack 

 the green peas in pod. But the chief mischief 

 is eating the green wheat when it is pulpy. 

 The juice runs out of their mouths like milk 

 when they are shot. A farmer often loses 20/. 

 on a field by them.' This is rather strong 

 evidence ; yet the very next witness, Mr. H. 



