| Show I rl DAVENPORT ANIMALS T I UI D T I U ILL MANS MANS e ri SU E Eco r t r I JV IVe PROUD FRAUD OF HIS TRIGGER co y FINGER d 1 OT 07 by X JI t K I i 1 p 4 w I z j Xi IE p I I M Mt t a t t i ir l I V I It f l r z i iI I r f 1 u 1 Y r f e I 4 1 C i j ir i q A tE v 0 l f 1 I tt F fG l l 1 e r d I 1 r r b Ct mil t h kt rS jr w i J 1 T C Ca J a e l r j t Pictures like the tilt one above are Ire posed for by b men then who take lake no interest in the Hie ot of lute an wild birds or 01 beasts other tl thou un to tu learn leam they cult tun be bo besh 1 I shot sh t in the tho numbers Such men loon see sec few of the iho beauties of f nature Apparently r t they thc nc never neer cr are arc bothered by the fact fac that they have hare killed more game than they can eat cat But Dut ButI I ii if the innocent animals that they thc destroy had bud souls and these hunters were confronted f suddenly by II those souls they thc might find it bard stork ork 1111 to lo case their minds minas t How BOI often we have hwe teen seen in newspapers photographs of scenes like the cue Que here herewith 4 with Ili iu showing some person proud of tho the fact Jad that he is surrounded ed by a II largo 1 fly quantity of I time roue which ho he ties has killed Hera Haro is a II picture of supreme contentment and lIld t triumph The rhe butter is prouder than was waa Napoleon when he be was reviewing his army hl Fen Terr occasions ons are arp ever eve I ro 0 o important to this overfed dyspeptic killer ns ng when he ho is being p photographed surrounded by Y the carcasses that have contributed contri to his fun The F torture he has hils caused is n noth ng to him not notto to speak of the great loss o of bird and ant 7 A t ml life The rue lots dogs sometimes Ionic lok lI in such pictures but the great rent hero is is very nt of In hi h tri jn leis hit hi five nea 1 TT iq is at loer n ham hame Y e f It is a n very ery strange part of our nature this desire to 10 hold a n killing killin bee lieo W o 0 soon scan would outgrow it if wo ve only ouy studied the tho habits of harmless wild gild game Then we would become aware of the pleasure they the derive delie from life lifo Wo Vo 0 aro are foolish enough to excuse ourselves by b saying EDing iI Well Krell ell they the dont enjoy lifo life as we do o and so theres no 10 harm in ill killing them Such ignorance Untouched the diseases by hy that thul afflict the human buman race the tho beautiful deer and wild birds lead cad 11 n life so delightful d that Hint almost any nuy human being would fould be thrown into ecstasies over oyer ono one brief week of such rin I an n existence i if not nol pursued by men with guns puns Could a hunter seo a I doe rear real her fawn observing oh day by Uy y day any her motherly care and could ho he see sea the care ear bestowed and comfort taken by of wild wila geese in rear jug ing their little broods year by hy year he lie would kill no more than thun was needed to hunger I believe helice we IC are waking up to the enormity of the crime crima of killing innocent game 1 i was WIe of il II n L iii nn flub dub dinner tile ibe lie other 1 ht and tho the first sneaker hit bit the tho nail noil on i the head by b saying that it was ivas wasil a strange sort o of affair fur for fu him to attend for be he nord nev had taken pleasure in trying to kill anything And other speakers who bad had intended ti titell tell teU of big hauls that they had made with ith the tho guns avoided the tho subject as us a result of ht it example A young oung doctor who sat near ill nr mo said Baid that after be he hull hud killed almost I that the tho law allowed him to o except wild turkeys ho invited to was go o to the be south by i friend who assured him hint that ho could give him some somo turkey shooting After Afler the tho dodo docta had bad shot shoat two of the beautiful creatures he spared sixteen that had been tricked one ono a an an I In n time lime into answering an cm imitation o or of their Hl ir own call Instead rn of oC taking the lives ot fj these e birds of an all almost extinct glossy species from the blind Wind whore where ho lie was hidden lu tit doctor photographed them and somehow he ho enjoyed tho the camera work more than h l t could have InYO enjoyed using u iu tho the gun glut This coming conning from ono one who loved to 10 shoot as ae well hell eU as ns any man is I And if you rOIL to attend a n dry affair go o to a L dinner in a 11 generation nemt oll f fl t I 1 Inow now noll |
