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dying. Every woodsman and warden is reporting 

 them. You cannot follow the sportsman far 

 without foreseeing still longer closed seasons, 

 much stricter regulations of all shooting, and even 

 moral tests, and tests for marksmanship, before men 

 with guns shall be allowed to go without official 

 attendance into the woods. More than that, if 

 you will follow the sportsman far enough, you 

 will lose much of your taste for blood; you will be 

 forced to the conviction that the pursuit of wild 

 things no longer has its legitimate nor its most 

 thrilling consummation in the kill. By the very 

 nature of things there must be less killing, while, 

 at the same time, there is bound to be an ever 

 increasing multitude of those who love to hunt, 

 and who may hunt but who must not kill; for 

 there is a better way, without the chance of mis- 

 ery, and without the certain extinction that dogs 

 the heels of the hunter as sure of his shadow. 

 We are individually responsible, even while we 

 put upon the State the burden for this better 

 mind. 



The driver of our car only laughed when I 

 wondered how long the coyote with the broken 

 leg might live. "He'll catch lizards and horned 



