It deprives free, harmless creatures of their best possession--life--and us thereby of a pleasant sight.

In general, a bird's existence seems to me also of little value, but beauty, to me as to you, transcends everything else.

What would existence be without it?
and wherever it appears, to injure it is infamous." Here a slight cough interrupted the young artist, and the moist glitter of his blue eyes also betrayed that he was suffering from an attack of severe pain in his lungs; but Daphne nodded assent to him, and to Hermon also, and commanded the steward Gras to take the birds out of her sight.
"But," said the Bithynian, "our mistress will doubtless allow us at least to take the hard lower part of the pelicans' beaks, and the wing feathers of the flamingoes and birds of prey, to show our master on our return as trophies." "Trophies ?" repeated the girl scornfully.

"Hermon, you are better than I and the rest of us, and I see that you are right.

Where game flies toward us in such quantities, hunting becomes almost murder.