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viding that the persons using it did not trespass upon 

 any man's corn or meadow.' This statute was upheld 

 in a recent judgment, and a newly-made private game- 

 park was thrown open to the public. An odd phase of 

 the present keenness of the public for public sport is the 

 attack recently made on cold storage solely because it 

 makes the detection of breakers of the close season 

 more difficult by preserving game all the year round in 

 condition for market. It was seriously alleged that 

 cold storing of game made it poisonous, or, at least, 

 unfit for human food. The subject was discussed at 

 immense length, and the adversaries of cold storage 

 were the popular party in the dispute, the thinness or 

 the arguments being backed up by the goodness of the 

 cause, which was not solicitude for wholesome food, but 

 for the protection of game in close time. 



The men who kill winged game in the close season 

 make immense bags in many districts, and by supplying 

 unscrupulous owners of cold stores with grouse, wild 

 geese, quail, and wild-fowl, earn large sums, and do 

 much mischief. The following specimen of a Yankee 

 poacher's letter, offering to make himself useful in this 

 way, was recently forwarded by the recipient to the 

 Forest and Stream. The spelling is given literatim : 



'jenuarry the 28. Mr i hav Bin sicK for fower 



weeks SinCe i saw your agent, i am gittin game rite 

 now i have some gees i will sent them in now mr i will 



