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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PASSING OF THE OLD GUARD TVON'T talk to me about conservation, ex- U claimed Uncle Henry. We Americans are the most wasteful people that ever squandered the natural resources of a country. Before you know it, there won't be any wild life left at all. What's the matter now? asked the Cub Reporter. Oh, these election results in Indiana an' Pennsylvania. Elder statesmen of the Grand Old Party defeated by rank outsiders like Beveridge an' Pinchot an' Frazier. First it was the buffalo that went. We never stayed our ruthless hands until all of 'em had been lulled off. Then we cleaned the forests an' streams of every single livin' thing. Bear, deer, antelope, otter, wild pigeons?a continuous slaughter An' now it's the Old Guard. There are no females of the species any more an' one by one the great herd bulls are bein' brought down. Poor old New The least Beveridge can do is to have him stuffed an' presented to the Indiana Historical Society. A magnificent specimen, measurin' eighteen feet from hip to hip. Up to twenty years ago there were hundreds of thousands of Old Guards, pawin' the groundwherever you looked, an' fillin' the air with joyous bellowin'. All through the McKinley Administration there was a closed season on 'em, an' the great corporations took a keen scientific interest in their protection an' improvement. They let the tariff grow high in those days, never cuttin' it, an' there the Old Guards had their wallows, comin' to immense size an' incredible sleekness. Taft was jes' as kind, an' many a time, when the winters were hard, he'd bring herd after herd right into the White House grounds an' feed 'em with his own hands. About that time was when you first heard of Gif- ford Pinchot. One day he let fly right into the bunch, badly cripplin' an old...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459008045 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459008049 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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