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...discouraged, gloomy and pessimistic because the birds are on the ragged edge of oblivion. I am trying to adjust my mind to a result that seems quite inevitable. The bird-defenders hold few good cards and all the high trumps seem to be held by the bird destroyers. For years I have noted the awful annual increase in bird slaughter and for years I have dreaded the arrival of the day when the small circle of men who control game protection matters in Washington would decide that no more reductions should be made in the killing privileges of sportsmen...
...association is generally recognized to have played a great part, not only in the campaign for the Migratory Bird Treaty and enabling legislation, but in other measures to insure a continuing supply of game-in better enforcement of the game laws, in game breeding, in declaring closed seasons when necessary and cultivating the right attitude of sportsmen and others toward...
Before the nodding copse, tangled in its phylacteries, her cry of guilt was the hollow hooting of a nameless bird in a field of desecration. The Kravno women of Israel lamented her madness. That such a year should come upon Serra Golda, her popular grocer-mother...
...reception room, a dining room, sun-parlor, music room and six servants' bedrooms. Across the entire rear of the house, facing the bay, are porches. A lawn slopes down to the water. The view includes Egg Rock, recently converted by the Massachusetts legislature into the Henry Cabot Lodge Memorial Bird Sanctuary, and across the Bay, on the Nahant promontory, the home of the late Senator himself. On the grounds is also a swimming pool which the President examined but expressed no intention of using. Its temperature is 55° ?a good deal warmer than the bay itself, into which Lieutenant...
LORD ULLSWATER: "It is quite clear that an insect is not a bird, nor a reptile, nor a fish; but I hope the noble lord [Lord Danesfort] in charge of the bill will consider whether insects should receive that protection which their lordships contemplate giving to the 'animals.'" (Chuckles...