CHANGE OF SEASONS AND OF THE TIMES. 27l 



CHAPTER XI. 



CHANGE OF SEASONS AND OF THE TIMES. 



Strikes — AVest Indian Blacks — Protection of Wild Birds — Change 

 in the Habits of Birds — Decreasing Numbers of many Species 

 — Advantage of the Gun Tax — Change in the Seasons — Nests 

 of Eggs Destroyed by Spring Frosts — Confiding Friendliness of 

 Small Birds — Decreasing Numbers of Pheasants and Partridges 

 — Political Change — Thunder Storms more often Fatal in their 

 Effects — How to Meet the Change as regards Game — Geological 

 Evidence of Change. 



It must be, or it ouglit to be, evident to us all 

 that tlie times — I mean the acje^ not its leader- 

 are changing fast in various directions, and that 

 this is not a time Avhen any person or any subject 

 whatever can be allowed to stand still. 



The Communists, the political prattlers, the 

 mischievous men inconsistently termed liberal, fol' 

 they are liberal only with other men's possessions 

 — these and their like have rendered the working 

 population dissatisfied with their wages and their 



