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The Wild-Fowlers 



me a better day than this has been with 

 you, old friend. Good-bye, good-bye." 



*' With the non-shooting public, every man who can 

 shoot on the wing is a sportsman ; the man who can 

 follow the track of a quail in the cornfield as an Indian 

 can track a deer in the forest, who exterminates a bevy 

 of birds at a single shot, is a sportsman ; he who 

 slaughters hundreds of fowl in and out of season is 

 also a sportsman, and, knowing no difference between 

 these and their betters of the gun, the indiscriminat- 

 ing public classes them all alike." GLOAN. 



