38 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



employer as to need no aJditions. AVlien the 

 rabbits • arc tlic perquisite of tlie keeper, lie is 

 sure to keep as many as lie can, and tlie tenant 

 is certain to liave tlie dissatisfaction of seeing" 

 damage by rabbits done to liis crops, liis loss 

 giving to his landlord no pleasure whatever. 



As a renter of manor and game, as it has been 

 my fiite to be for the greater portion of my life, 

 my system is as follows : to preserve all the 

 manorial rights exclusively as they were let to 

 me, to guard all the rights belonging to the 

 estates, and to give the strictest orders to my 

 keepers, by night and day, to protect the farmers' 

 stock, fences, roots, and crops from depredation, 

 and to watch over the herds and flocks, cows, 

 oxen, horses, mares and foals, sheej:), and pigs, 

 as if they were my own, and at once to re]3ort 

 any accident to any of them to the farmer, and 

 to render him all the assistance in their power, 

 night and day, to remedy the evil. I remember 

 more than one instance in which the tenant- 

 farmer over whose land I held the exclusive rights 

 has come to me and coin})laincd of the tresjjassing 

 of the cattle from squatters on tlieir crops by 

 night, purposely turned in upon them by tlieir 



