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that most, if not all, of them would within 

 a very few months fix a close time for 

 hares — a thino- I have so often urcred — not 

 because of the threatened extinction of the 

 animal, not because a breeding hare is 

 worthless for food, but from common 

 humanity, to stop the too-frequent practice 

 of to-day, of shooting the doe and leaving 

 the helpless leveret to die of starvation. 



Next in order among animals which would 

 be affected by such a law come our native 

 British deer — the red-deer and the roe-deer. 

 Here it Is desirable that the power of Councils 

 should extend not only to species, but also 

 to sex. With hares, of course, this Is 

 impossible ; but In Germany and Austria 

 the stag and roe-buck get (very properly) 

 quite a different close time to that of the 

 hind and the doe, which last, In nearly all 



