"I understand," said she, "that in many places down on the New Jersey coast the boatmen have given up fishing, as they can make so much more money killing terns and gulls for women's use.

They earn fifty dollars a week at it, at ten cents apiece for the birds.

Isn't that a horrible record for women ?" "I don't doubt they earn that much, and perhaps more," answered Mrs.
Brown; "for one season there were thirty thousand terns killed in one locality alone.

And at Cape Cod, and up along the shore near where I lived, they are slain by thousands every season and shipped to New York.

Oh, I can't tell you how distressing it used to be to hear the report of the guns day after day and know that every piercing sound was the sign that more innocent lives were being taken.