The Owl in the Attic

摘要

Even as long ago as the eighteen seventies, there were those among the older generation of sportsmen who were lamenting the decline in the abundance of game. The buffalo, the elk, and the antelope, that once roamed the Minnesota prairies in herds, were gone; and some of the smaller animals and game birds were decreasing in number. Charles Hallock, a famous sportsman of the day and the editor of Forest and Stream, on a visit to Minnesota in 1877, wrote.