SIR: Please encourage your children not to ill treat or murder wild fowl and baby chicks, not to damage or disturb their nests, not to throw stones at any wild birds and not to frighten wildlife by playing football too near to nest sites.

In the long summer holidays, when they get bored some children turn to cruel crime.

Allana Price

Hindley Green

Wigan

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