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modestly opined was destined to live for 

 ever. 



While this is no place to embark on 

 the stormy waters of political discussion, 

 at the same time it would be wrong to 

 pass by unchallenged the many rash and 

 ill-considered utterances to which we are 

 now being treated, of which the above 

 may serve as a sample, utterances which 

 ring only too plausibly in the ears of 

 thousands who, having no shadow of 

 knowledge about the subject, accept as 

 gospel all they are told, and thus come 

 to regard all game and game-preserving 

 in this country through a false and dis- 

 torted medium. 



It is not the sayings themselves that 

 do the mischief; when they come from 

 the irresponsible tub-thumper in the park 

 we may well afford to forgive him his 

 ignorance, and leave him to battle the air 

 in peace, knowing that his words are dead 

 as soon as spoken ; when, however, they 

 fall from the lips of a responsible Minister 

 of the Crown, with all the dignity of his 



