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result, as it has no object, but to advertise the names 

 of four or five obscure Members of Parliament as 

 sham champions of supposed popular rights. 



The truth is that all these questions are local, 

 nay, more than local ; they^are so individual that 

 they may as a rule be left to settle themselves by the 

 force majeure of local opinion or knowledge. 



Dealing strictly with the question as it stands 

 to-day, we may be practically certain that it is out of 

 the power of one class materially to injure the other 

 in a matter like that of the preservation of game. 

 There is no need to introduce politics or legislation, 

 on account of the widespread knowledge of the 

 subject already existing, diffused as it is among all 

 classes of the population who have anything to do 

 with it. y 



Really the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Labouchere -4 c* P*r 

 seem to be the only people who neither understand (^Z " 

 nor wish to learn anything about it. 



Politics should be out of place in a book on sport, 

 but I offer no apology in these days when you hear 

 the subject touched upon in every country house and 

 inn-parlour for insisting upon the fact that the 

 ordinary laws of humanity and common sense are 

 sufficient, when not neglected, to protect all the game 

 in these islands, and to preserve sport wherever 



