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Shall we give posterity a birdless, gameless, fishless continent, or not? Shall we have close seasons, all over the country, for five or ten years, or for five hundred years? If we are courageous, we will brace up and answer these questions now, like men.

These snö-flaks show no sign of life, not even the 'red-snow' tinge, and around each is a belt of barren earth, to testify that life and warmth can never be divorced. Birdless and lifeless, the gray-green snow-pied waste extends over all the stretch that is here between the timber-line and the snow-line, above which winter never quits its hold.

The ragged ranges of forest, almost untrodden by civilized man, the thin and feeble undergrowth, the unbroken silence, the birdless thickets, all seem to indicate a peculiarly sterile destiny. One thinks, as he presses forward, that some gloomy Fate finds harbor in the place. All around, far as the eye may see, it looks in vain for relief in variety.

And very disconsolately and birdless, they made their way back to the camp. Bart was sufficiently observing to notice, even amidst the many calls he had upon his attention, that Dr Lascelles grew more and more absorbed and dreamy every day.

Clear your conscience by taking hold now, to do everything that you can to stop the carnage and preserve the remnant. Twenty-five or fifty years hence, if we have a birdless and gameless continent, let it not be said that the zoologists of America helped to bring it about by wicked apathy.

Most of her aunt's property was in houses, in various districts of Bloombury. Arabella moved from one to the other of these tenements, till she settled for good into the dullest of all. To make it duller yet, by contrast with the past, the Golgotha for once gave up its buried treasures broken lute, birdless cage!

Its name signifies "birdless," indicating that its ascending vapors were fatal to all birds that attempted to fly above its surface. In the superstition of the Middle Ages Vesuvius assumed the character which had before been given to Avernus, and was regarded as the mouth of hell.

There we should find beautiful flowers and waving grain, typical of that spiritual harvest which should be associated in our minds with comfort and peace. A Birdless Cemetery. I visited, not long ago, one of the old-time cemeteries, the pride of a neighbouring city.

Let any one, possessing a garden in the suburbs of London, minutely examine the foliage at a point furthest removed from the house, and he will find the plants clean from insects; and as he moves back he will find them increasingly abundant until he reaches the door. Insect life is gathered thickly about us, for that birdless space which we have made is ever its refuge and safe camping ground.

Times have changed, and the lines for protection must be more tightly drawn. It is up to the American People to say now whether their wild life shall be slaughtered by machinery, or not. If they are willing that it should be, then let us be consistent and say away with all "conservation!" The game conservators can endure a gameless and birdless continent quite as well as the average citizen can.