Life, 1907-07-18 · page 13 of 28
Life — July 18, 1907 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains four wildlife photographs with accompanying text about hunting and animal behavior—not political cartoons or satire. The content discusses: - A python's meal ("After a Hearty Meal") - Birds using twigs to build nests ("One at a Time") - A hunter's experience with woodcock - A boy with a rifle and a large bird ("A Real Dream") The text debates whether hunters should be blamed for killing animals, quoting "A. B. Phelan" on the ethics of hunting. The page explores natural history and hunting practices rather than political commentary. The photographs appear to be genuine nature documentation typical of early 20th-century Life magazine content, which mixed serious journalism with lighter lifestyle pieces.
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AFTER A HEARTY MEAL devouring a pythoncous angleworm- cous. As to the story of birds building a framework of rails and tying them to- gether with strings; had it been said that this feat was performed by rail-birds, it may never have been doubted. ONE AT A TIME ‘The accompanying picture shows one of these birds in the act of taking a rail from a fence in New York State. In building their nests, however, they never tie the framework themselves, but call upon their feathered seafaring brethren to make the sailor-knots, etc. ‘An event which happened during the boyhood of an experienced old hunter is still clearly pictured in his mind: Having tugged an old double-barreled shotgun about in search of any kind of game for 85 an entire afternoon, and succeeding only in wounding a woodcock in the leg, he wearily sat down beside a big maple tree, and remembers to this day how he saw that woodcock repair the broken member. ] | | “Who can blame the hunter?” It is no doubt heartless and cruel for a hunter to creep up on en innocent, unsus- pecting ure and murderously life, but whocan blame the hunter for pro- tecting his own life? A, B. Phelan. cits A REAL DREAM comicbooks.com