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2 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



CHAPTER 11. 



THE RENTED MANOR. 



Sporting Rights — Teiicant Farmers and Eabbits — Eggs of Game 

 Birds — Prevention of Theft — Unwise Leniency shown to Thieves 

 — Rabbits as Food — Tenancy at Will — Gamekeepers — Cockney 

 Orators. 



Among the many perjolexing occurrences of country 

 life, tliere is nothing more difficult to manage with 

 satisfaction to yourself, and with justice to all 

 around you, than a mansion rented as tenant of 

 the sporting rights and game as well as of the 

 mansion, said tenant thus being the third person, 

 and coming between the real proprietor of the 

 soil and the farmers of the estate, and of course, 

 by this, creating a third interest, not always con- 

 templated by either of the two parties with whom 

 the tenant for sport has to deal. If the tenants 

 of the farms are rcalh' respectable and well- 

 conditioned men, then life among them as the 

 renter of the game is easy enough, by giving to 



