RABBITS AND REVOLUTION
One has often heard the question asked by sportsmen and others who understand country life — What would become of the game if the theorists had their way and bought up all the land in the name of the State? The answer (says a writer in the Morning Post) usually ib that there would bo no game left. It is quite true aa to partridges and pheasants. When Engla,nd— to quote Milton— "mews her mighty youth," as she is to do when — to quote the Chancellor of the Exchequer — her "ancient and absurd lahd system" has beeh swept away, it will be all up with the game. Under State Socialism there will be ho room for shooting syndicates. When all those wild wastes now kept for "selfish sport" are made fruitful, what chance will there be for the "partridge?"— the natural history is not mine, it is that of a greater officer in the State. So the pheasants and partridges will go, and with them will go doubtless the foxes. But the rabbits are a very different matter. They will linger. They will re-assert themselves in many spots. The Rabbit will outlive the Revolution.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 17
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196RABBITS AND REVOLUTION Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 17
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