JANUA RT IN BROADLA ND. 



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numerous, are rare hereabouts to-day. The dastardly egger has done much to 

 aggravate the situation. Where the gun has slain its units, the egger has annihi- 

 lated a legion ; but his day, too, is past, for he has destroyed his own ill-favoured 

 craft. The lapwing has been fairly ousted by him. And then the privacy of 

 some birds, in the breeding season, has been of late years intruded upon by the 

 prying tourist, who in every case is not content with seeing but must handle. 



A PEEP AT THE BROADS. 



'I believe, also, in transmitted instinct; we get fewer birds now, for genera- 

 tions of disappointment have taught the species to keep away from where they'd 

 starve. Can I j ustify my action ? Most decidedly. These birds which lie dead here 

 are foreign-bred. They came, a mere sample of the hosts bred in the morasses 

 of the north; their demise but little, if anything at all, affects the race. They 

 are sent us as food: the Author of our being and theirs placed us in dominion 

 over the fowls of the air as well as of the fishes of the sea. You don't blame a 



