Will the editors beat the alarm-gong, early and late, in season and out of season, until the people awake?
On the answers to these questions hang the fate of the wild creatures of the world,—their preservation or their extermination.
FOOTNOTES
To-day, we think that the fowlers of the roccolos of northern Italy are very cruel in their methods of catching song-birds wholesale for the market (chapter xi); but our own countrymen of Wilson's day were just as cruel in the method described above.
"Special Report on the Decrease of Certain Birds, and its Causes."—Mass. State Board of Agriculture, 1908.
It is probable that these birds were killed by piercing the head through the eyes.