188 DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION OF ANIMAL LIFE 



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Whether one ought to include the great slaughter of 

 Ducks, Geese and Swans, which in earlier days and to a 

 lesser extent to-day, is carried out by such murderous 

 weapons as punt guns which still survive in Scotland in 

 the Moray Firth and in the Solway as mainly destruction 

 for food or as destruction for the sake of sport, I leave my 

 readers to decide. In either case the result from the point 

 of view of animal life is the same the reduction in number 

 of the immigrant Ducks, Geese and Swans which seek tem- 

 porary harbourage in our sheltered creeks. 



