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for his protection before his value as a 
destroyer of noxious insects, etc., was 
considered to any extent. However, the 
writer has talked with many farmers who 
do not consider the presence of quails in 
their fields as altogether an unmixed 
blessing, and has even heard Bob roundly 
denounced as a marauder vcith a strong 
predilection for pulling up young corn, 
besides being the possessor of other traits 
not calculated to endear him, in life, to 
the farmer. The writer does not at all 
favor these views, but on the contrary 
believes that a flock of quails is a very 
valuable adjunct to a farm, especially 
during the summer months, still they pre- 
vail to some extent, and conditions must 
be taken as they exist, until they can be 
changed, anyway. 
Suppose that Smith and Jones are ad- 
joining land-owners; Smith has a grove 
of trees inhabited by numerous squirrels, 
to which he and his family are greatly 
attached, but he is one of those fellows 
who has no friendly feeling for the quail 
on account of the damage which he thinks 
they do to his young corn, and for that 
reason does not want them in his field, 
while, on the other hand, Jones is a 
strong believer in the efficacy of the quail 
as an insecticide, but knows it to be a 
fact that squirrels are particularly fond 
of “roastin’ ears,’’ and will, if not pre- 
vented, do considerable damage thereto. 
The squirrels, after passage of the law 
advocated by Mr. Bannon, would belong 
absolutely to Smith so long, and only so 
long as they remained on his land and 
among the trees where it is his desire 
they should stay, but the temptation of 
the nice green corn growing in neighbor 
Jones’ field is too strong to be resisted 
and they go after it. But the moment 
they climb over the fence and get on 
Jones’ land Smith’s ownership ceases and 
they become the property of Jones, who 
grabs his trusty blunderbus and reduces 
a rather nebulous ownership of uncertain 
duration to an estate in fee simple, in 
possession, and Bunny goes into the pot. 
While this horrible calamity is happen- 
ing to the squirrels formerly owned by 
Smith, an equally tragic end has over- 
taken Jones’ quails, which, with a total 
disregard for property lines and personal 
prejudices have flown over the fence into 
Smith’s woods pasture, eventually land- 
ing in a nice pot pie. Details of what 
happened when Smith and Jones met will 
be left to the imagination of the reader. 
But, if Mr. Bannon’s ideas have been 
carried out both Smith and Jones are 
fully within their legal rights. Had the 
quails and squirrels been domestic ani- 
mals and been reduced to possession by 
their original owners, the respective titles 
would have survived their crossing the 
line, but the law as advocated, necessarily 
leaves the ownership exactly in the con- 
dition above outlined. Each would be 
the absolute owner, at the time he killed 
it, of something which had but an instant 
before been the property of the other, 
and which had been neither sold, traded, 
devised, bequeathed, abandoned, given 
away nor stolen, and of which the former 
owner had no previous intention of in 
any way disposing of, and it is ele- 
mentary law that one may use or dispose 
of his property as he sees fit provided 
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