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People with guns and snares lie in wait to kill us, as if the place for a bird were not in the sky, alive, but in a shop window or under a glass case.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “People with guns and snares lie in wait to kill us, as if the place for a bird were not in the sky, alive, but in a shop…”
Editor's note · Context
Hoar critiques the hunting of birds, arguing that they belong in the wild, not as trophies.
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