But we're not to kill anything that's harmless unless we need it for some purpose.

The Indians and other people about here shoot at loons for sport.

I've seen them chase the loons in canoes and keep shooting at them every time they came up after a dive, until the loons were too tired to dive quickly enough to get out of the way of the shot, and then the poor things were killed.

The flesh isn't fit to eat and they're always thrown away.

That is cruel." "I never thought of un that way.