3o8 GAME PRESERVATION 



Perhaps even stronger language would be used were 

 the market-gardens in Gunnersbury or Fulham. ' The 

 depredations on all kinds of truck are fearful, and drive 

 the small farmers, who especially suffer, to madness and 

 despondency. Ask, for example, the people of Bohemian- 

 ville how they have to suffer, despite all precautions, by 

 putting up scarecrows, hanging out lanterns, etc., to 

 keep off the deer. In making such an onerous Game 

 Law, the State expropriates the farmer without giving 

 him compensation ; the State takes the food out of the 

 toiler's mouth and gives it to the deer.' After remark- 

 ing that, instead of encouraging the growing of vege- 

 tables to supply the poor with cheap food, ' the State 

 goes to breeding wild animals,' the writer adds that, 

 when trying to get compensation from the Board ot 

 Supervisors, the Board answered humorously that the 

 farmers * should start a revolution.' ' Is that equal 

 rights?' asks this citizen of Long Island. In Maine 

 a difficulty of an unforeseen kind is urged against 

 modern State preservation. By the old laws of the 

 colony of Massachusetts, the founders of this refuge for 

 tender consciences enacted that no game preservation 

 should be permitted, and further declared that the 

 right of free fishing and fowling should pertain to all 

 on any great pond containing more than ten acres of 

 water, and that the right to pass and repass to any 

 such water should remain for ever unabridged, pro- 



