74 GAME ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



game in any section of the country where its wanton and unneces- 

 sary disturbance is prevented. 



As thing's stand at present, the country where game most 

 abounds is that which is now, or has lately been, infested by hos- 

 tile Indians. The red fiends know enough to preserve their game 

 from excessive and continual persecution, and it is where the white 

 man dare not go that it is found most abundant and most unsus- 

 picious. The Indians are the only real preservers of game in the 

 West. 



Will not every officer and every Western man to whom these 

 lines come think seriously on this matter, and endeavor to do his 

 part to put down terrible butchery ? 



