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be productive of more jealousy and unpleasantness, than 

 entire absence of payment for damages. 



As an act of conciliation, masters and prominent hunting 

 men sometimes give the services of a stallion to the farmers 

 of the district, usually on the condition that they do not 

 keep up wire during the season. In doing this, they often 

 forget to consider if the soil is suitable for the type of 

 animal they propose to be cultivated. For instance, it would 



Fig. 222. Hedge newly cut and laid, about 3 ft. 9 in. high. 



be hopeless to attempt to breed good hunters in many parts 

 of the Midlands, or Fen country, which is famous for the 

 production of the horse-show type of Shire animal. In 

 such parts, a Shorthorn bull would be more useful to 

 the generality of local farmers, than a thorough-bred sire. 



HUNTING MEN AND SHOOTING MEN. 

 The great enemies of hunting are preservers of pheasants 

 who desire to make " newspaper bags " ; for to accomplish 

 this Cockney ambition, foxes have to be killed. The toll 



