264 PRESERVATION OF GAME, 



It would far exceed the limits of this work to 

 insert every ruse de guerre that is successfully 

 practised, for a tolerable shot to come home with a 

 full bag. All keepers and lookers out, therefore, 

 should be constantly on the alert, and made strictly 

 acquainted with the game laws, at least as far as 

 they relate to themselves ; but although this may be 

 learnt by a little conversation with almost any at- 

 torney's clerk, or a few written instructions, yet not 

 one in ten knows how to serve a notice correctly, or 

 even the most common points of what so materially 

 concerns the duties of his situation. 



Keepers should be as widely distributed as pos- 

 sible, by which means a marauder would have some 

 difficulty to steer clear of them all ; but these men 

 (like markers) are too apt to get idling and chattering 

 together, instead of minding their business. Each 

 gamekeeper would do well to have with him a witness 9 

 for which, any common labourer would be sufficient ; 

 and, above all, a spy glass, by which he would most 

 likely be able to distinguish any man, who might 

 beat him by being longer in the legs than himself, 

 or having a horse which was a better fencer than his 

 own ; and who he may, by this means, be able to 

 recognise hereafter, so as to find him out, and serve 

 him with notices. A few words more, with regard to 

 gamekeepers : 



Be careful how you trust any of them with guns, under 

 the pretence of their killing vermin ; for it is an un- 

 doubted fact, that many of those, who are considered 



