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heavy with offspring alike peld "biltong," and 

 nothing with life in its nostrils and flesh on its 

 bones is spared so long as it can put a few blood- 

 stained pence into the "bUtong" hunter's ever- 

 gaping pocket. By him whole districts have been 

 devastated, whole species almost wiped out. The 

 man who wields a pole-axe in a common abaUoir 

 has as much right to call himself a sportsman as 

 this miscreant, whose mission in life it is to 

 destroy the most beautiful of living forms for no 

 other object than to prolong his own contemptible, 

 unnecessary existence. I trust the time is not 

 far distant when the manufacture of "biltong" 

 from the flesh of wild game killed expressly for 

 this purpose will be made a criminal offence 

 pvmishable with the heaviest penalties. 



