RECREATION. 



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THE ANTI-HOUNDING LAW IS ALL RIGHT. 

 The residents of the Adirondacks have 

 no use for the present deer law and want it 

 repealed. What do you think of this law? 

 D. E. Moxley, Bloomingdale, N. Y. 



I consider the anti-hounding law em- 

 phatically a good law. I regret the neces- 

 sity of disagreeing with a large number of 

 good people who live in the Adirondacks, 

 and who do not approve of this law; but 

 as I have said before I feel that the 6,000,000 

 people in this state, outside of the Adiron- 

 dacks, have some rights in the deer of that 

 region which the people there should re- 

 spect. Personally I do not want the game 

 preserved in order that I may kill it; for I 

 do not want ever to kill another deer. In 

 approving this law I simply voice the senti- 

 ments of thousands of naturalists and 

 nature lovers, many of whom have never 

 fired a gun and never expect to. I also 

 speak in behalf of thousands of sportsmen 

 who like to go into the woods and kill a 

 deer occasionally, in a manly, skillful way. 

 I do not attempt to advocate the claims of 

 men who are too lazy to hunt deer. I have 

 no sympathy with the man who likes to sit 

 on a log and wait for the dogs to drive the 

 game to him. Neither have I any use for 

 the man who sits on the bank of a lake and 

 waits for the dogs to drive the deer into 

 the water, and who then gets in a boat, 

 follows up the deer and kills it at short 

 range, either with a gun or a club. Such 

 men are not entitled to be classed as sports- 

 men. They are pot hunters of the worst 

 sort. 



I fully realise that in expressing these 

 sentiments I am antagonizing hundreds of 

 men who are good and useful citizens; but 

 I insist they are not good sportsmen. 



That certain people do not approve of the 

 present deer law is no reason why it should 

 be repealed. There are thousands of men 

 in this city who do not approve of our crim- 

 inal laws. They would like to have the law 

 against stealing repealed, in order that they 

 might help themselves to the property of 

 other people whenever and wherever they 

 could find it. The man who breaks into a 

 house, who is caught in the act and sent to 

 prison, considers the law which sends him 

 there a hardship. He considers the officers 

 who enforce this law high handed ruffians 

 and thinks they should be killed. 



Game laws are made for the greatest 

 good of the greatest number, and not 

 for the few people who live in the game 

 ranges. I am well aware that hundreds, 

 of deer have been killed during the present 

 winter by residents of the Adirondack 

 region, simply for the purpose of making 

 the present deer law obnoxious; but these 

 law breakers have failed in their purpose. 

 The decent sportsmen of the state will now 

 see that this anti-hounding law is made per- 

 petual, and the people in the Adirondacks 

 will in time learn that they have simply 

 been destroying valuable property that 



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is perfectly ODORLESS, 

 and that is another reason 

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 Polish. You will not have 

 to move out of the house 

 until it " burns off," if you 

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 other has so large a sale. 



J. L. PRESCOTT & CO., New York 



would have brought them good money in 

 years to come, if they had saved it. — 

 Editor. 



George H. Webber: In December Rec- 

 reation, I read the diagram of your charac- 

 ter, signed by you. At first I thought it was 

 a letter written by the editor, for I could not 

 believe such an unprincipled person really 

 existed; but I see the devil has not com- 

 pleted his job. Possibly you are one he has 

 condemned, as unfit for his abode. Your 

 squeal is long and heartrending, but who 

 ever saw a stuck hog that did not squeal 

 long and loud? 



You say there are a good many honest 

 sportsmen there who think as you do. I 

 beg to differ with you. No honest sports- 

 man, or honest anything else, would think 

 as you say you do, or be so devoid of prin- 

 ciple and self-respect as to say so. 



I see you hold a government position. 

 The poor government! A man (?) who 

 says, " Game was made to kill and he would 

 kill all he could," is not fit to be trusted in 

 any position. 



C. S. Scribner, Mt. Vernon, O. 



If you would live next to nature, read 

 Recreation. 



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