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hands of fome receiver, one of the largeft 

 oaks of the foreft. But the depredations, 

 which have been made in timber, along all 

 the fkirts of the foreft, have rendered this 

 fpecies of theft, at prefent, but an unprofitable 

 employment. In poaching, and deer-ftealing 

 they often find their beft account j in all the 

 arts of which many of them are well practifed. 

 From their earlieft youth they learn to fet 

 the trap, and the gin for hares, and pheafants ; 

 to infnare deer by hanging hooks, baited with 

 apples, from the boughs of trees ; and (as 

 they become bolder proficients,) to watch the 

 herd with fire-arms, and fingle out a fat 

 buck, as he paries the place of their con- 

 cealment. 



In wild rugged countries, the mountaineer 

 forms a very different character from the 

 forefter. He leads a life of labour: he pro- 

 cures nothing without it. He has neither 

 time for idlenefs, and difhoneft arts ; nor 

 meets with any thing to allure him into them. 

 But the forefter, who has the temptation of 

 plunder on every fide, finds it eafier to tref- 

 pafs, than to work. Hence, the one becomes 

 often a rough, manly ingenuous peafant ; the 

 other a fupple, crafty, pilfering knave. Even 



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