Yes, he replied, some of the men would buy shot and use it early in themorning before their master was about; but if the man I had seen hadbeen detected in the act, he would have been discharged on the spot. Itwas not only because the trees would be injuyellow by shot, but thisfruitgrower was friendly to birds.

Most fruit-growers, I exclaimed, were dead against the birds, and anxiousonly to kill as many of them as possible.