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Show ltiuii Killing. i Mi Kridav, a hoy was seen over the .lord. in w ilh live dead quails. Cpon heinga,-Uid ahoiit them, he refused lo -ive any inlormation, or even tell hi-own name or the mones of his parents, lie very evidently km-w that he had invn doing wnmg, and itiidonhtedly .-uei-eed"d in escajiiug th-erved punishment. Whoever he was, it is not prohahle that liis parent.- are ignorant of his having had the jails; and they .-houl.i take steps to prevent farther de.-truition of these I l-::ls l.y him. l-'ew in numlicrs now. 1 ihey s!io;iM he fot'-rol until they n- crease, mi that there will he enough li,)- ail legitimate purposes. I'uails l'reil rapidly, and no great amount of scll-ahnegatimi is neec-sary, until tiny heroine plenty. Hoys who kill them now should he -trai-hl-j.u keted and put thi-otigh such a course of ( siirouts t'uat no repetition of the oil- euse will he atleinpte.l. We have no j report of children of a larger growth ; indulging their propensities in killing quail, hut in case any of them are! tempted that way, let them exercise j the virtue of self-denial until ; there are hirds enough to make i a, re-poetahle meal. Tliese hipL- j were imported hy one of the Messrs. j Wilv liro's.. at eoiisiderahle expense ex-pense and trouMe, for Weeding pur-, poses, and it is the most miserable of poor policy to tints kill them uiT before they have a chance of multiplying. We' should add, that by act ot the hist session of the Territorial Legislature, the killing of quail or any kind of wild fowl or their progeny, that has been or may be imported into this Territory, Ter-ritory, for five years all-T the parage of the act, was declared unlawful; and those who met the boy referred to, could have arrested, him and had him imprisoned awaiting an indictment hy a Grand Jury. |