DAIRY PRODUCE, EGGS AND POULTRY. 371 



But of the latter only two have been preserved, each over a 

 few years only; and of the former, particularly those of Lord 

 Spencer, from which much of this information comes, only 

 a few are in the British Museum. But I think that enough 

 has been stated to show that some persons made fowling a 

 calling and a means of livelihood, or at least a bye industry, 

 and that what we now call game was freely captured, hawked 

 about, and sold, being purchased by persons who knew the 

 law, and apparently did not consider that it was violated. 



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