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And these are also birds that, along with many other 

 birds of beautiful plumage, are persecuted because of 

 their fatal beauty. Recently there appeared in the 

 New York Tribune, this, which ought to live in the 

 memory of every child, and ought to arrest the attention 

 of everyone: "The smaller gulls and sea swallows are 

 shot for their wings, and the fowlers, in their haste, do not 

 stop to kill any wounded birds; they merely wrench off 

 the wings, and throw the wounded birds back into the 

 water to die in agony. 'And,' says an eye witness, 'when 

 wounded birds are being torn asunder, they cry and 

 scream like a child.'" And this is at the demand of 

 woman, at once the tenderest and the crudest of God's 

 created beings! 



