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Show m No Trcspnssing. M Five million people of tho United B States maybe more thnn that hnve H put up signs, "No Tresspassing Hero H Under Penalty of tho Law," or other H -(, mispcllcd words to that effect; they m ' had to do it, they say, in defense of tho M crops and Btock. Thnt means for B everybody to keep to tho dusty rond B , and not set foot in the green fields, tho 1 brookside path where there might be M trout or rabbits, tRo groves where B the nuts nnd the pheasants nnd squir- M rels aro, tho hillsides sweet with black- H berries or strawberries in season, the H meadows gay with bloom, nnd tho B stubble fields where the quntl feed. B , Another ten millions or twenty, B more likely have read these signs, B and have said and though all gradua- B tlons of protests, front mild regret to B stormy incendiarism and homicide B ... they, too, in self-dofensc, for they B ' needed the recreation tho fields and B forests and running brooks would af- M ford nnd it would have cost so little! M They feel that Nature intended some M ' v of these bounties for the whole world, m even for the landless man, regardless H of titles, or leases, or judicial decrees. H May Outing. |