196 GAME PRESERVERS AXD BIRD PRESERVERS. 



instead of writing these letters, we should see 

 his name in the advertisement column of the 

 same newspaper as the inventor of a patent 

 cat trap. 



And we also kill the mountain fox, the 

 wild, or vagrant, wandering homeless cat, the 

 polecat, stoat, and weasel, and the rat and the 

 hedgehog ; and when none of these creatures 

 infest our mountains, woods, and fields we 

 know that our beautiful and useful wild birds 

 can breed in peace. 



A home tliat suits birds is not always easily 

 procured, and here Mr. Waterton was far in 

 advance of his age. His protection of the 

 poor persecuted water-fowl was worthy of all 

 imitation. We are sorry for these birds, which 

 must recede before man. The command, ' Let 

 the dry land appear,' which suits him so well, 

 is their destruction. 



But he need not hunt them off every bit of 

 water on which they are ever seen. If he 

 would systematically protect them he would be 



