ABOUT THE GAME LAWS, ECT. 177 
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The boy and his gun—just now—is attracting con- 
siderable attention among the lawmakers of several 
states—particularly New York, and the boy without the 
gun seems to be the proper position in which to place 
him if we would have less maimed people to help through 
along life—the result of boy carelessness with fire arms. 
Even out in this western State of North Dakota where 
the population is so scattered, how often we read the 
newspaper item —‘‘boy accidently shot”—or ‘‘didn’t 
know it was loaded.” While our population is not nu- 
merous in comparison with our vast acreage era, yet we 
read of from twenty-fine to fifty separate newspaper 
items yearly, similiar in caption to the above that tells 
of killed and maimed boys. Better to educate the sav- 
age out of the young fellow, by buying him a kodak 
or camera instead of a gun, that he might learn to pro- 
tect and not destroy the small birds of our woodlands 
and prairies. 
While the tresspass law remain upon the statutes of 
North Dakota, the resident owners of farms need not 
wholly dispair, for in this the law makes every land 
Owner a game warden over his own premises and his 
own rights are imperative. Whatever game birds and 
animals are saved from year to year in this State are due 
to the partial enforcement of the law as to tresspass- 
ers, in which the farmer posts up his notices of ‘‘no 
tresspassing with dog or gun’’ or ‘‘no hunting here” 
and backs it up with fortitude to the dismay of the 
brazen wrongdoers who cower before a determined per- 
son in the right. But the penalty as to wilfull tresspass 
