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I04 The Passenger Pigeon 



nests in the impenetrable wilds of Arkansas, the Indian 

 Territory, Canada and British America, as often as in 

 the land of civilization where it can be reached for 

 market. It is a source of profit to the poor, or pleasure 

 to the rich. Its benefits to the Emmett County home- 

 steaders, as felt through the cold of this winter alone, 

 are enough to compensate for evils even as black as our 

 Prof. Roney paints, and Emmett County is but a sample 

 of whatever location the birds may settle in. 



Let the law, in regard to distance, stand as it is. 

 Enforce it against all alike; make no exceptions; let 

 the rule of supply arid demand govern the catchings, and 

 you will have something better than all the professors 

 in Michigan suggest. Let the supply be so large that 

 prices are low and wages can't be made, and law or no 

 law, the catching will stop. But don't make a law that 

 will take bread out of the homesteader's mouth, and 

 work from hundreds of poor and honest men; no, not 

 even if the birds should be sacrificed, to a certain extent, 

 for man is above the beasts, and the "beasts of the field 

 and the birds of the air" are given unto him for his 

 benefit and his profit. 



