Lake Umbagog
1907
state
never made us any trouble although he
often came to Upton and was perfectly
aware of what we were doing there.
Indeed I frequently talked with him about it.
He held - and wisely, I think - that
technical infractions of the law, if
committed with some obviously necessary
or worthy purpose, might often be
ignored with advantage rather than detriment
to its general usefulness and efficiency.
As he clearly recognized and frankly admitted the
time was not then ripe for the rigid
enforcement of all its mandates. There
was no permit clause to legalize
bird collecting - else we should have
taken advantage of it I trust. Mr. Wormell
was equally considerate of native hunters
and even city sportsmen who, when
camping in the woods, occasionally
killed a Deer or a Partridge out of season for food
and made good use of it. But he
was quite merciless in dealing with
the market and skin hunters
whom he caught red handed and to 
his zeal and success in suppressing their
depredations was due
very largely, I believe, the remarkable
increase in the numbers of Deer and
Moose which took place during the
period when he was a state
game warden.