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doe's back. He mechanically clasped his arms about her 

 body. Away the perplexed deer flew through the forest, 

 bearing Major Darling, feet first, along with her. He held on, 

 and after the deer had run with him half a mile or more, he 

 managed to catch her by one hind leg and trip her up. She 

 fell heavily to the ground, and before she could regain her feet 

 the Major cut her throat." 



"THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW." 



As civilization advances and improved firearms be- 

 come every year cheaper and more numerous, the wild 

 birds and four footed (undomesticated) animals will 

 decrease. Tliis is not alone true of Pennsylvania, for 

 we see in other regions, where proper laws are not en- 

 acted and enforced for the protection of game (birds, 

 mamnmls and fish), these creatures, interesting and 

 often A^aluable from eommercial and other economic 

 standpoints, are fercquently exterminated. 



MANY YET REMAIN. 



Ingenuity has enabled man to make the most deadly 

 and rapid-firing arms, which, in the hands of profes- 

 sional meat or skin hunters, have, within the last fif- 

 teen years, caused much depletion of the large four- 

 footed game, and also feathered kinds, as well as the 

 briglilly-dressed song and insect-eating birds, which, 

 fashion has decreed that frail, fastidious woman — 

 lovely though she is, and, without her, terrestrial exis- 

 tence would rot be worth a farthing — shall decorate 

 her pretty head. 



FIFTY SPECIES OF MAMMALS. 



Natwithstarding the slaughter in the last quarter 

 of a century of wild animals, drcssi^d either in warm 

 <(»ats of fur <!•!• attra(tiv(^ f(>athpi' gaibs, one may yet, 

 with i)roi)er instructions and investigations, find many 



