Game Preservers And Bird Preservers Which Are Our Friends
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Waterton, while doing his best to encourage all the creatures which destroy that triumph of acclimatisation, the pheasant, could always, thanks to his neighbours, boast that he had some in his park and on his table. When we take to preserving their enemies we will certainly cease to shoot them ourselves, and will carry a walking-stick instead of a THE GROUSE. 135 breecli-loader when we visit tliem in their mountain homes. It is not in the number of birds which a man kills in a day that the crue...lty of shooting consists, but in the fact whether he has or has not previously given them such protection from their numerous enemies as to justify him in kiUing this number. If he does not protect them, he cannot kill a single game bird without throwing his weight into the scale against a persecuted, harmless race which can scarcely maintain their existence as it is. No bird requires help from man more than the grouse, and their preservation is well under- stood in many parts of Scotland and in York- shire, where that national loss, a grouse killed in the spring months, is never known; but in Argyllshire their remains are scattered all through the hills, and landowners wonder their land is not worth shooting over ; but as they know it never has been, they are con- tented that it never should be.
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