PART II.: WILD LIFE OF THE COUNTRY 



ANIMALS. 



SLOWLY but surely all the wild animal life of 

 this country is disappearing. 



How sad it is. A species of animals or birds 

 once thoroughly exterminated is gone for all 

 time. A piece of God's handiwork that can 

 never be replaced. 



How much more interesting is the country if 

 we occasionally see a bit of wild life, moving and 

 acting without restraint, except the restraint that 

 its own natural laws, learnt from the experience 

 of its ancestors for the well-being of its race, have 

 imposed upon it. 



If these wild animals did more harm than 

 good to the agriculturalist, the writer feels that 

 his appeal for their preservation would be useless. 

 But careful observers have come to the con- 

 clusion that most of the wild life does the 

 agriculturalist more good than it does him harm. 



The polecat, the stoat, the weasel, the fox, the 

 badger, on the whole, do the agriculturalist more 



