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through pheasants or foxes, in wliich he knew his 

 lordship had a personal pleasure; but to see his 

 crops eaten down, and to see the keejier carting 

 off the rabbits to market for his (the keeper's) 

 own profit, in addition to his already good wages, 

 was more than he could endure ; and if such a 

 state of things was to go on, he must quit his 

 farm." I did my best to have the abuse altered, 

 but in vain ; as a good tenant, finding himself 

 under a thus disagreeable landlord, he availed 

 himself of his yearly tenancy, and, I am sorry 

 to say, ceased to rent under the Castle. In 

 this instance, then, the tenant found that being 

 a holder at will was advantageous to him ; he 

 knew in his own mind that he intended quitting, 

 and that he could go by giving sufficient notice 

 wlienever he pleased ; he had time at his com- 

 mand to look for another farm, and he was not 

 obliged to make his communication to the steward 

 until he had secured another aoTicultural home. 

 Now, if he had had his farm on lease, I care not 

 what were the stij)ulations contained in that lease 

 as to his farm and the rabbits thereon, the woods 

 being in his landlord's hands, and the keoj^ers 

 having a riglit to protect the grounds from illicit 



