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As sure as the world, it is going! The fact that a little pocket here or there contains a few birds does not in the slightest degree disprove the main fact. If the sportsmen of this country desire to save the seed stock of woodcock, they must give it everywhere five or ten-year close seasons, and do it immediately!
Utah should instantly stop the sale of game that she now legally provides for, twenty-five shore birds and waterfowl per day to private parties! Deer should be given a ten-year close season, at once. All bag limits should instantly be reduced one-half.
Whatever is to be done should be expeditiously carried out, for time is fast running out and the Ten-Year Crusade is rapidly and inexorably approaching its midway-point.
You have probably not been permitted to hear a word of it at home, but the Chinese papers are allowed to explode all they please, to rail and rave and rant. As I said before, much good may it do them. I wrote you last autumn of the ten-year contract entered into between China and the British Government, the final outcome of the contract to be the total suppression of the opium trade.
Loosely guessing that science controls habitually the whole range from absolute zero to 3000 degrees Centigrade, one might assume, for convenience, that the ten-year ratio for volume could be used temporarily for intensity; and still there remained a ratio to be guessed for other forces than heat.
Even the 100-bushel crop of corn per acre is known to have been produced in many places on exceptionally rich land, and yet the ten-year average yield in the United States is only 25 bushels to the acre. 200 Per Cent for Nitrogen On Broadbalk Field at Rothamsted, England, wheat has been grown on the same land every year for about two-thirds of a century.
Then came twins 1585. February. Two blank years follow. Then 1587 he makes a ten-year visit to London, leaving the family behind. Five blank years follow. During this period NOTHING HAPPENED TO HIM, as far as anybody actually knows. Then 1592 there is mention of him as an actor. Next year 1593 his name appears in the official list of players. Next year 1594 he played before the queen.
You know that in the long run, even with the most ably managed companies, expenses and losses together just about eat up all the premiums received that less than a dozen first-class companies doing a national business have an underwriting balance on the right side for the last ten-year period." "I admit that unfortunately such is the case."
Through this comedy played by him above, and through another complementary comedy which he plays below, the plebiscite, he transforms his ten-year consulate into a consulate for life, and then into an empire, that is to say, into a permanent, legal, full, and perfect dictatorship.
Then came another wagon, with two men and a ten-year old boy, George Williams. The robber ordered these to stand upon the log, whereupon little George, in great trepidation, exclaimed, "Good Mr. Robber, don't shoot, and I will do anything you tell me!"
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