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Title: The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: French, John C., 1858-
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Altoona, Pa., Altoona tribune company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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of the swivel into the sports. This comes of settling a country! he said. Herehave I known the pigeons to fly for forty long years,and, till you made your clearings, there was nobodyto scare or to hurt them. I loved to see them in thewoods, for they were company to a body, hurtingnothing; being, as it was, as harmless as a garter-snake. But now it gives me sore thoughts when Ihear the frighty things whizzing through the air, forI know its only a motion to bring out all the brats ofthe village. Well! the Lord wont see the waste ofhis creatures for nothing, and right will be done tothe pigeons, as well as others by and by. Thou sayest well, Leather Stocking, cried Mar-maduke, and I begin to think it time to put an endto this work of destruction. Put an end. Judge, to your clearings. Aint thewoods His work as well as the pigeons? Use, butdont waste. Wasnt the woods made for the beastsand birds to harbor in ? And when man wanted theirflesh, their skins, or their feathers, theres the place
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OFFICER JASPER H. FINCHER(Photograph by Shempp Studio. Williamsport, Pa.) THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 133 to seek them. But Ill go to the hut with my owngame, for I wouldnt touch one of the harmlessthings tliat cover the ground here, looking up withtheir eyes to me, as if they only wanted tongues tosay their thoughts. With this sentiment in his mouth, Leather Stock-ing threw his rifle over his arm, and followed by hisdogs stepped across the clearing with great caution,taking care not to tread on one of the wounded birdsin his path. He soon entered the bushes on the mar-gin of the lake, and was hid from view. Whatever impression the morality of Natty madeon the Judge, it was utterly lost on Richard. Heavailed himself of the gathering of sportsmen, to laya plan for one fell swoop of destruction. The musketmen were drawn up in battle array, in a line extend-ing on each side of his artillery, with orders to awaitthe signal of firing from himself. Some millions of pigeons were sup

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