HE LOVED THE WOODS. 



an in this whole country who is not in- 

 terested in watching and hearing from 

 that family of antelope. I do not be- 

 lieve there is a man in Arizona who 

 would dare kill one of them. If any 

 man should do so, and any of the 

 ranchmen or Mexicans should catch 

 him in the act, his hide would leak 

 daylight in less than a minute. 



We have a law in this State making 

 a close season on antelope for 10 years, 



and it was enacted through the direct 

 efforts of the League of American 

 Sportsmen. Of course, the Mexican 

 who roped the little antelope did not 

 know this, but he knows it nov/, and 

 all the other Mexicans in the country 

 know it. I have always done and al- 

 ways shall do everything in my power 

 to protect all wild animals and birds 

 from thoughtless and reckless slaugh- 

 ter. 



HE LOVED THE WOODS. 



STACY E. BAKER. 



He loved the woods, and almost ev'ry day Folks called him "Nature's fool," and loved 



Would find him strolling there, heart-free to play 



and gay, Their jokes an' tricks on him ; an' then he'd 



Through shady bowers. Each leaf an' stay 



tree * Down where the forest brook runs wild 



Seemed mos' to know him ; seemed as if an' free ; 



he 



He loved the woods. 



Was kith an' kin to birds, an' such as they. 



Sometimes he'd be for weeks an' days away, 



An' folks as didn't understand would say, 



"Jim's got another broodin' spell" ; but 



we — 

 The buds an' flowers, ferns an' things 

 an' me — 

 We knew ; we knew what led his steps 

 astray : 

 He loved the woods. 



A young graduate in law, who had had 

 some experience in New York City, wrote 

 to a prominent practitioner in Arkansas to 

 inquire what chance there was in that sec- 

 tion for such a one as he described himself 

 to be. He said : "I am a Republican in pol- 

 itics, and an honest young lawyer." The 

 reply that came seemed encouraging : "If 

 you are a Republican the game laws here 

 will protect vou. and if you are an honest 

 lawyer you will have no competition." — Ar- 

 gonaut. 



