Outing . THREE BEARS, THE BLACKFOOTA link with the old days of wildness and war. From Wilderness Pets. SUKEY SWATS THE RAVEN WILD PETS By EDWARD BRECK Illustrated with Photographs Getting on Domestic Terms with the Wild Things of the Forest and the Air —SHE title that has beenchosen above is a mis-nomer, since most of thepets I shall yarn about,though born wild, werespeedily tamed. Con-cerning the ethics of taking young birdsand animals from their mothers andbringing them up in surroundingsstrange to their ordinary lives I have ru-minated considerably, having been bornwith a New England consci
Outing . THREE BEARS, THE BLACKFOOTA link with the old days of wildness and war. From Wilderness Pets. SUKEY SWATS THE RAVEN WILD PETS By EDWARD BRECK Illustrated with Photographs Getting on Domestic Terms with the Wild Things of the Forest and the Air —SHE title that has beenchosen above is a mis-nomer, since most of thepets I shall yarn about,though born wild, werespeedily tamed. Con-cerning the ethics of taking young birdsand animals from their mothers andbringing them up in surroundingsstrange to their ordinary lives I have ru-minated considerably, having been bornwith a New England conscience. Incommon with all true sportsmen—Itrust I may reckon myself among them—the lust of killing, strong enough inearly youth, has departed with the years,and while I will still deliberately takeanimal, bird, or fish life whenever I con-sider the reasons sufficiently strong (as, [108] say, in the case of a hunger for tiout),the occasions when I do so are becomingrarer and rarer. But it is odd that I donot outgrow the fascination of keepingwild things in durance, though
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