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man J known to bo dishonesty brings me eggs or 

 a very small leveret (both eggs and animal 

 being useless to him for food or sale), showing 

 thereby a desire to please me, to reward him 

 in return to a far greater degree than any use 

 by him of such things could have won for him ; 

 and I do this to show both rich and poor that it 

 is my wish not to tyrannize over the said-to-be 

 working classes (but often no workers at all), 

 but to teach them to see (to use a homely old 

 saying) upon which '' side their bread is really 

 buttered." By the system wdiicli I have always 

 pursued, the very men who set themselves up 

 against me have in the end, and, after punish- 

 ment, left off their dishonest aggressions, and 

 come to me for both advice and protection, when 

 put upon by others, or robbed and swindled by 

 their own associates. 



I am perfectly certain that, in sundry vicinitieSj 

 well known to my experience in game-preservingj 

 but for the culpable folly of the magisterial 

 bench at petty sessions in dealing with convic- 

 tions, I could have made many an idle villain 

 support himself, his wife, and children,- by honest 

 means and fair wages, rather than starve, as he 



