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Jefferson County Hatchery to Lake Ontario, the 

 benefit of which will be felt as much by Canadians as 

 by our own citizens. 



It may well be asked how all this immense business 

 is carried on, and at whose expense. Efficient and 

 experienced persons are employed and well paid by 

 the respective legislatures of States, and the people 

 provide the money. 



His Excellency Robert Roosevelt, late U.S. Minister 

 at the Hague, and the late Mr. Seth Green, originally 

 started pisciculture combined with fish and game 

 protection. Their work was uphill at first, but after a 

 time the electors saw the benefit that would result to 

 all by uniting in action to support these gentlemen's 

 efforts, so that we have game wardens now, judiciously 

 placed where their services are required, that would 

 almost imprison their own fathers for looking at a 

 deer, grouse, or hare out of season. 



I am inclined to believe, after all, that what between 

 Mr. Gladstone's ambiguous oratory and Sir William 

 Harcourt's mis-statements, that old England is nearer 

 by long odds, the out-and-out Radical Republic than 

 ever we have been since the war of Independence. 



THE END. 



(Sportsman's Diary.) 



