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When writing say you saw the adv. in 
“Forest and Stream.” 
trees absorb from the atmosphere a large pro¬ 
portion pf its carbonic acid, which without this 
natural filtration would be left in the air to be 
breathed by the people, with the consequence of 
diminished health. Trees are not only beauti¬ 
ful objects in the landscape and useful as sup¬ 
plying valuable timber, but they are necessary 
for the proper regulation of the climate and the 
absorption of gases deleterious to the human 
frame. The duty of all is, therefore, not only to 
spare the trees, but to plant them wherever and 
whenever possible. 
IN A BRITISH WOOD. 
A ride in a wood contains all scenery, water 
excepted, says a writer in the London Times. 
A man must be a sportsman quite to enjoy the 
full charm of a riding, and as he stands waiting 
for the cackle and rattle of the rising pheasant 
he has a rare opportunity to observe, and plenty 
of time to enjoy, both the details of the scenery 
and the movements of the animals that give life 
to it. His position as an observer is incom¬ 
parable. Where he stands all is. quiet, and 
must be quiet. At a distance a slight and or¬ 
ganized noise moves the wild things of the wood 
toward the quieter quarter. They are intent on 
what is behind them, and more blind than usual 
to what is in front of them. The same causes 
bring about strange and surprising juxtaposi¬ 
tions. A week or so ago, in a very beautiful 
Midland covert, a fox moved up to his run 
within three feet of one of the guns and stopped 
there, listening intently to the noises behind 
him, and only at last aware through his nose ot 
the gun standing over him. Close beside him 
was a cock-pheasant equally unobservant of the 
danger in front,, and the movements and atti¬ 
tudes of these natural enemies were to be 
watched with such intimacy that the observer 
could almost feel with them the anxious sense 
of being hunted and an inclination to avoid the 
approach of the clumsy gang who were blunder¬ 
ing through the sanctuary. When the firing be¬ 
gins the scene of course is changed, and the- 
keenest sportsman may be allowed to feel glac 
when now and again the pheasants are slow in 
coming; the naturalist in him fights with the 
sportsman; and, though in Walter Scott’s words 
“the conscious pride of art” is the stronger in¬ 
stinct in the hunter, some kinship in tire wik 
remains to give a substance and a humanity tc 
the memory of the day’s sport. . 
A man coming back to shoot in a Midlanc 
wood after an interval of some ten or a dozei 
years would find its community not a little 
changed, flhe pheasants themselves are no 
what thev were. You scarcely find any longei 
a pure example of the old English pheasant 
The Japanese bird with the white ring round hr 
neck and more vivid peacock tints has prove< 
a dominqnt variety; and, splendid though hi: 
colors are and his flight strong, one must re 
gret the disappearance of the old English bird 
with his more autumnal coloring. Several va 
rieties of pheasant have been successfully turnec 
down, and in the birds that are crosses betweei 
them the tints often do not consent to a peace 
able' relation. You see not infrequently hgh 
brown wings attached as if by mistake to ; 
'rainbow bodv, and the abrupt contrast has tn< 
curious effect of making the wings look to< 
small for the weight they support. When om 
sees such birds, either over the trees or. in tinj 
bag, one is inclined to agree with the vigorou 
diatribes of Mr. Tegetmeier against all aliei 
importations. The inclination, however, disap 
pears when at the end of the day some nw 
partridges are killed which clearly owe 
physique to the strain of Hungarian blood. W- 
are at a period when most birds are increasmj 
and most vermin decreasing. Some thirty-nw 
years ago, keepers in the home counties made • 
fair sum of money by killing pole-cats at 2s. od 
a head. To-day the pole-cat is almost as rar 
in England as the wildcat in Scotland, and eve: 
stoats are in places so few that sportsmen hav 
been found to declare that a few more wou 1 
be a good thing. The fox, classed in the earl, 
ages as vermin, is, of, course, an exception 
and of them the huntsman of a famous pack re 
