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tracts of wild nature, with thereon the wild things the de¬ 
struction of which means the destruction of half the charm 
of wild nature. The English Government has made a large 
game reserve of much of the region on the way to Nairobi, 
stretching far to the south, and one mile to the north, of the 
track. The reserve swarms with game; it would be of little 
value except as a reserve; and the attraction it now offers 
to travellers renders it an asset of real consequence to the 
whole colony. The wise people of Maine, in our own 
country, have discovered that intelligent game preservation, 
carried out in good faith, and in a spirit of common sense as 
far removed from mushy sentimentality as from brutality, 
results in adding one more to the State’s natural resources 
of value; and in consequence there are more moose and 
deer in Maine to-day than there were forty years ago; there 
is a better chance for every man in Maine, rich or poor, pro¬ 
vided that he is not a game butcher, to enjoy his share of 
good hunting; and the number of sportsmen and tourists 
attracted to the State adds very appreciably to the means 
of livelihood of the citizen. Game reserves should not be 
established where they are detrimental to the interests of 
large bodies of settlers, nor yet should they be nominally 
established in regions so remote that the only men really 
interfered with are those who respect the law, while a pre¬ 
mium is thereby put on the activity of the unscrupulous 
persons who are eager to break it. Similarly, game laws 
should be drawn primarily in the interest of the whole peo¬ 
ple, keeping steadily in mind certain facts that ought to 
be self-evident to every one above the intellectual level of 
those well-meaning persons who apparently think that 
all shooting is wrong and that man could continue to exist 
