"Why, we all know that woman's part in this wickedness comes from her desire to look pretty; at least she thinks that wearing birds adds to her beauty.

Her wickedness does not come from actual love of butchery.

But men and boys have shot innocent creatures since the world began for the mere brutal pleasure of killing something.

It seems as though they were born with a blood-thirsty instinct, a wanting to destroy life, to hunt it and shoot it down.

They beg to go gunning almost before they are out of dresses and into trousers.