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eager to fight him. In trying to get at the prisoner, the victim 

 will go into the cage trap, and is thus caught. This nefarious 

 business should not be tolerated and should be prohibited by 

 law, and the caging of birds made a crime. In some states 

 they have such laws, and I am glad that finally such an one 

 has been enacted in Indiana. When Mr. James Lane Allen 

 caught a boy trying to trap his cardinal, it caused him with 

 indignation to say: "All day this meditated outrage has kept 

 my blood up. Think of this beautiful cardinal beating his 

 heart out against maddening bars or caged for life in some 

 dark street, lonely, sick and silent, bidden to sing joyously of 

 that high world of light and liberty where once he sported ! 

 Think of the exquisite refinement of cruelty in wishing to take 

 him on the eve of May!" 



