. Review of reviews and world's work. shedding of blood and destroyinglife. As in my own case, there are thousandswho love the excitement of. the cliase, and yetcannot help feel the pang of sympathy for theconquered victim, so beautiful and so worthy tolive,—unless it be one of the noxious var-mints on which we are compelled to wage war. Another element entering into the problem isthe economic one of the decrease of game and ofwild life. This is an age of nerve strain, andmore and more people need the sport of the fieldin order to keep well and to live. Populationincreases by leaps and bounds.
. Review of reviews and world's work. shedding of blood and destroyinglife. As in my own case, there are thousandswho love the excitement of. the cliase, and yetcannot help feel the pang of sympathy for theconquered victim, so beautiful and so worthy tolive,—unless it be one of the noxious var-mints on which we are compelled to wage war. Another element entering into the problem isthe economic one of the decrease of game and ofwild life. This is an age of nerve strain, andmore and more people need the sport of the fieldin order to keep well and to live. Populationincreases by leaps and bounds. We need theinterest and beauty of wild life to entice us afield,but if any considerable proportion of us wish toshoot, even in moderation, soon there will notbe any wild game left upon our continent. Agri-culture, our basal industry, becomes menaced bythe spread of insect pests in proportion as thebalance of nature is overthrown. People areawakening to these facts, and every year sees 434 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF RE^ YOUNG COCJPEKS HAWKS. (In their nest in a chestnut tree.) many additions to the game laws, furtlier restrict-ing the liunter and protecting the game. Wemay soon be driven to the step, wliich lias beentaken in some qitarters abroad, of imposing alicense fee upon every owner of a firearm. Asthere, shooting will tend to become the sportonly of the rich. Yet why need matters takesnch a course ? AVliy should we wish furtlierto reduce the numbers of the rapidly dwindlingwild life, which adds so much of beauty and inter-est to our national domain, when we can have justas much sport, exercise, excitement, exhilaration,in matching our wits with tliose of the wild chil-dren of Nature, and that without shedding a dropof blood or diminisliing even by one the popula-tion of the wilds ? There is no denying tliat it is far harder tophotograph satisfactorily a free, wild adult birdor animal than it is to kill it. Indeed, this branchof the subject stands about at
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