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very pleased to join such an association 

 as you suggest, but my experience as 

 a leo^islator suo-oests a doubt whether it 

 will be easy to pass a measure for the 

 protection of roe through the House of 

 Commons." 



But to return to our sportsmen, and speci- 

 fically to the points in which we are drawing- 

 together. Well, of course, one point is the 

 very heavy drafts the Germans have, in these 

 later years, made upon our pointer blood. 

 We, on our side, have made oreat advances 

 in the matter of retrieving pointers and 

 setters, and surely this is adopting the 

 German idea, that to keep a pointer or 



Mr. Gathorne Hardy's anticipations of legislative difficulty, 

 I think I have to a certain extent met the case in my paper, 

 " Poor Pussy,"' in which it is suggested that Parliament be 

 only asked for a Wild Animals Act, giving County Councils 

 similar powers as they now have in the case of wild birds. 



