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more needy neighbours or by tramping gipsies. 

 In reply, I told, tliem, '^ that the remedy was in 

 their own hands, and that they could pound and 

 chari2:c for all cattle so at lar^e." 



Their answer has been, ^'That is all very 

 well, sir — I know what the law is ; but the first 

 time I put it in force, one of my ricks was 

 fired l^y an incendiary at night ; and I am not 

 going to excite the revenge of tramps or gipsies, 

 nor that of the needy possessors of a hut-kept 

 cow, and so to risk it again." 



On all the farms over which the exclusive 

 sporting rights are mine, my keepers are strictly 

 charged to prevent, by poundage, the damage 

 arising from stray cattle, and to guard the root 

 crops from molestation. The consequence of 

 this fair conduct is, that the gamekeepers and 

 the tenant-farmers under me have lived happily 

 together, and my men are regarded by them 

 as a most efficient rural police. 



As to the rabbits, each tenant-farmer is re- 

 quested by me to rej)ort any spot on his holding 

 where he thinks there are too many rabbits. 

 The moment that report reaches me or my 

 head keeper, my men, nets, and ferrets obey 



