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or his fpade, to range the woods for the 

 deftrudlion of animals, which afford a noble 

 and manly diverfion to their Proprietor, I 

 can conceive no more inconfiftent with 

 juftice, than that he ihould be prevented 

 from entering the orchard or the hen-rooft. 

 As the beafts of the foreft and the fruits of 

 the foil are equally common in a ftate of 

 nature, fo I fee no reafon why they may 

 not be equally appropriated in a ftate of 

 civil fociety, And J appeal to any perfon 

 really converfant in thefe kind of fads, if 

 he knows a fmgle inftance of one of thofe 

 men, commonly called Poachers, whofei. 

 profeflion is a violation of the Game Laws, 

 3,nd againfl whom alone they are ever ex- 

 ecuted with any feverity, whofe character 

 and fufferings could entitle him to a tear, 

 ^vcn froni that moil fentimental of all 

 B 4 fen- 



