58 ACCESSIBLE FIELD SPORTS. 



nated or stupefied by the brilliancy of the glare, and 

 falls a ready victim to the club of the midnight 

 prowler. America is now coming to that age that it is 

 absolutely necessary to enact laws,* and insist on their 

 being enforced, for the protection of game and fish. 

 If not, half a century hence, the haunts which now 

 abound with game will be as thoroughly divested of 

 it as the Hudson or Connecticut River is of the 

 princely salmon. Once extermination takes place, it 

 will be too late to do aught but repine. 



* This was done last year by the legislatures of nearly all the States. 



